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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ishmael say is ironic about the story the Takers adopted about two thousand years ago?
(a) It had been created by their enemies
(b) The story did not originally have anything to do with them
(c) It had started as a joke
(d) It did not represent their beliefs

3. What is the story the narrator tells in Chapter 3?
(a) The war between good and evil
(b) The evolution of man
(c) God’s expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
(d) God’s creation of the universe

4. Why has the change in Chapter 9 come about?
(a) Ishmael and the narrator have finally come to some fundamental understandings about culture
(b) The narrator had requested it
(c) Ishmael had made it a condition of their dialogue continuing
(d) There was nothing more they could say without making this change

5. How does the narrator characterize Ishmael’s expression when he gets the narrator to see that the idea that man should rule the earth is a myth?
(a) Smug
(b) Triumphant
(c) Glum
(d) Ironic

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?

2. How does Ishmael say Takers regard the world?

3. Why does the narrator say he answers the newspaper ad?

4. What is the big change that has taken place at the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. What does the narrator say made the difference between men before and the men that live now?

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