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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 find when he returns to the office building in Chapter 10 after several days away from Ishmael?
(a) Ishmael has been evicted
(b) Ishmael has died
(c) Ishmael is sick
(d) Ishmael will not talk to him

2. What does Ishmael say the peace-keeping law promotes?
(a) Diversity
(b) Consolidation of power
(c) Longevity
(d) Civilization

3. What is the literary term for the running comparison to aeronauts?
(a) Parallel syntax
(b) Parody
(c) Analogy
(d) Anaphora

4. For whose benefit does Ishmael say the Leavers accumulate and preserve knowledge?
(a) The community of life
(b) The creatures they are responsible for
(c) Their food supply
(d) Themselves

5. What is a paean?
(a) A requiem
(b) A death knell
(c) A praise song
(d) A parody

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ishmael say ‘Adam’ means?

2. What knowledge do the gods discover that allows them to rule the world without being criminals or negligent?

3. Where does the narrator reunite with Ishmael in Chapter 10?

4. What does Ishmael say a community lacks, when it has lost its diversity?

5. What does the narrator talk to Art Owens about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ishmael say the Takers are fulfilling the story in which creation came to an end with them?

2. What surprising behavior does Ishmael describe for the narrator in an imaginary hospitable city?

3. What keeps the narrator from returning to the office building for a few days?

4. How does Ishmael says man becomes man?

5. What reading does Ishmael give the Bible story of Cain and Abel?

6. Why does the narrator say that he is depressed when he does not see Ishmael for a few days?

7. What are the three things that Takers do that nothing else in nature does?

8. What are the three tricks Ishmael says the gods played on the Takers?

9. What does the narrator say is the consequence of the Takers’ culture?

10. What does the narrator say he would do to figure out the fundamental law of the community Ishmael describes?

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