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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say made Germans captive under Hitler?
(a) Hitler’s charisma
(b) Hitler’s violence
(c) Hitler’s story about the Aryan people
(d) Hitler’s international support

2. How does Ishmael characterize the Takers’ response to the law he and the narrator discuss in Chapter 8?
(a) They found that they could use it to their unfair advantage
(b) They claimed that it did not apply to them
(c) They found that they could get away with breaking it indefinitely
(d) They argued that it was against their constitution

3. Where does Ishmael say people were looking, when they came to the conclusion that man had undermined the universe’s plan, that he would rule nature?
(a) To the tragedy of warfare
(b) To the squalor of cities
(c) To human history itself
(d) To the order of the cosmos

4. 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) Ironic
(c) Triumphant
(d) Glum

5. What is the literary term for Ishmael’s saying that he is cold?
(a) Denouement
(b) Falling action
(c) Prophecy
(d) Foreshadowing

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say that Hermann Hesse presents Leo’s “awesome secret wisdom”?

2. How does Ishmael respond when the narrator says that he does not believe that he is part of a story?

3. What scenario does Ishmael introduce to test the narrator’s ideas about his imaginary culture?

4. What has the narrator’s coldness become, now that he mentions it to Ishmael a second time, at the end of Chapter 5?

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

(see the answer key)

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