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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is mythical about the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The facts themselves
(b) The arrangement of the facts
(c) The implied redemption
(d) The chronology

2. What is the literary term that describes the narrator’s directly addressing the reader?
(a) Direct discourse
(b) Indirect discourse
(c) Apostrophe
(d) Personification

3. What does the narrator say he expected when he answered the newspaper ad?
(a) A zoo
(b) An atmospheric brownstone
(c) A library
(d) A temple

4. From whose perspective does Ishmael tell a rival creation story in Chapter 4?
(a) Someone from another planet
(b) An indigenous person in Asia
(c) A gorilla
(d) A jellyfish

5. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?
(a) He has always gone out of his way to avoid learning about it
(b) He is moderately well informed about it
(c) He is a student of it
(d) He is unaware of the details of Nazi rule

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the office building like, where the narrator answers the newspaper ad?

2. What does Ishmael say man’s importance must be, in the eyes of the gods, in the narrator’s creation myth?

3. How does Ishmael say the narrator learned the story of ‘how things came to be this way’?

4. Who does Ishmael say is the exception to the story of the narrator’s culture?

5. What does Ishmael say the world was created for, in the narrator’s story in Chapter 4?

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