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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?
(a) That the world is made for man
(b) That man is an exile in his consciousness
(c) That the world is a mystery no one understands
(d) That man belongs in the midst, not on the top of the community of life

2. Why does the narrator have a hard time agreeing to Art Owens’ demands?
(a) He dislikes Art Owens
(b) He wants to be free of the whole business
(c) He cannot put a price on his friendship with Ishmael
(d) He does not have the money

3. How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?
(a) Plodding
(b) Meteoric
(c) Slow, till he learned how to navigate the ocean
(d) Fits and starts

4. 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) It did not represent their beliefs
(c) The story did not originally have anything to do with them
(d) It had started as a joke

5. What is a koan?
(a) A spur to meditation
(b) A paradox
(c) A riddle
(d) A secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take the narrator to come up with the laws Ishmael asked him to define?

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

3. What does the narrator say when Ishmael asks if he would go back to prehistoric times?

4. Where does Ishmael say he was born?

5. In Chapter 11, how does Ishmael define culture?

(see the answer key)

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