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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?
(a) If he traded with other cultures, he would lose his women
(b) If he stayed in one place, he would be subject to wars
(c) If he stayed in one place, he would exhaust his food supply
(d) If he wanted to farm, he would have to kill off the hunter-gatherers

2. Where does the narrator say the conquest narrative in Chapter 6 ends?
(a) With the conquest of all knowledge
(b) With the conquest of outer space
(c) With the mapping of DNA and the brain
(d) With rebellion and collapse

3. What event does Ishmael say correlates to the birth of the Takers’ story?
(a) The discovery of metallurgy
(b) The development of trade routes
(c) The beginning of writing
(d) The birth of agriculture

4. How does the narrator characterize the end of the 1960s?
(a) As a cooptation by corporations
(b) As a fight that was defeated
(c) As a movement that died in a crackdown
(d) As a dwindling to irrelevance

5. Where does Ishmael say, in Chapter 7, they should look for a set of laws about how to live?
(a) Anthropology
(b) The heavens
(c) Literature
(d) Human behavior

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?

2. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael sees in the narrator’s story: “The world was made for man to conquer, and turn into a paradise--except for what”?

3. How does Ishmael characterize a community that does not live by the peace-keeping law?

4. What is a koan?

5. When does Ishmael say the event he put at 8,000 B.C. on his timeline ended?

(see the answer key)

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