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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scenario does Ishmael describe in Chapter 7, which horrifies the narrator?
(a) The meetings of the gods, where the gods do nothing but bicker
(b) A city where every plant and tree is ordered
(c) A jungle where the animals have committee meetings
(d) A city where the neighbors eat each other

2. What does Ishmael say is the consequence of thinking that the world was made for us?
(a) That we owe someone an enormous debt of gratitude
(b) That we have to take care of it
(c) That we can do what we want with it
(d) That we have to find its proper owners

3. What does the narrator say is his first impression of Ishmael?
(a) Curiosity
(b) Comfort
(c) Tenderness
(d) Terror

4. 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 human history itself
(c) To the order of the cosmos
(d) To the squalor of cities

5. Why does the narrator say he groans when Ishmael asks him how man became man?
(a) He feels that Ishmael is mocking him
(b) He says that he is tired of being the student who does not know things
(c) He says that he is impatient to know already
(d) He says that questions of that sort intimidate him

Short Answer Questions

1. In the narrator’s account of his culture, in Chapter 5, what was the problem early man had to solve?

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

3. What item does the narrator bring Ishmael at the carnival?

4. In Chapter 6, what does Ishmael say is unobtainable in the narrator’s culture?

5. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the Leavers’ story?

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