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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?
(a) The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it
(b) The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress
(c) The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it
(d) The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.

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

3. What end does Ishmael say he foresees for the Takers’ culture?
(a) Conquest
(b) Redemption
(c) Chaos
(d) Catastrophe

4. Whose voice does Ishmael say the narrator is lulled by?
(a) God the Father
(b) Mother Nature
(c) Father Time
(d) Mother Culture

5. How long ago did the Leavers’ story come into existence?
(a) 2-3 thousand years
(b) 200 years ago
(c) 300 years ago
(d) 2-3 million years

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say his relationship with Nazi Germany is?

2. How does Ishmael say the gods must have seen the world before man, according to the narrator’s culture’s story?

3. What does Ishmael say is the premise of the narrator’s creation myth?

4. What is the narrator’s reaction when he hears the rival creation story Ishmael tells in Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 3, how does Ishmael tell the narrator to think, when he tries to get him to see the myth of his culture?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the sign that the narrator notices behind the gorilla say, and what does the narrator interpret it to mean?

2. Why does Walter Sokolow adopt Ishmael?

3. What is the narrator’s reaction when he finally recognizes his creation myth as a myth?

4. What are the definitions Ishmael lays out for the narrator?

5. What is the ‘but’ Ishmael says is part of the narrator’s culture’s myth, and where does the ‘but’ come from?

6. How does Ishmael say Hitler captivated the German people?

7. What does Ishmael say will be the result, once the narrator learns to hear Mother Culture’s voice?

8. Why is the narrator so upset to see Ishmael’s ad in the paper?

9. What does Ishmael say man’s purpose is, in the narrator’s creation myth?

10. How do Ishmael and the narrator see the Takers as similar to early aeronauts?

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