Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does the narrator take with him when he leaves the carnival grounds at the end of the book?

Ishmael’s bars

Ishmael

Ishmael’s books, maps and papers

Ishmael’s blankets

2.

How does Ishmael characterize man’s progress, once he discovered agriculture?

Plodding

Fits and starts

Meteoric

Slow, till he learned how to navigate the ocean

3.

How does Ishmael describe civilization’s progress in Chapter 7?

As the free-fall of an aircraft that does not accord with the laws of aerodynamics

As a building built on water

As a corpse that has been kept alive artificially

As a garden that has worn out the soil

4.

What does the narrator say, in Chapter 6, is the problem with his culture’s story?

The narrator says that technology has sped up the destruction of the earth so much that no one can stop it

The narrator says that conquering the earth has meant destroying it

The narrator says that conquering the earth has provided freedoms that are worth the earth’s destruction.

The narrator says that there has been a strong conservation movement, opposing industrial progress

5.

What distinction does Ishmael point out between Leaver and Taker cultures?

The absence of guilt in Leaver culture

The absence of the fear of death in Leaver culture

The absence of prophets in Leaver culture

The absence of medicine in Leaver culture

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