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| Ishmael has had two names, both of which allude to |
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| according to ishmael, the takers see themselves as |
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| what happened to walter sokolows parents? |
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| they were killed in the holocaust |
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| who is the narrator of the story? |
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| we are never given his name |
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| to help the narrator understand his arguments, ishmael defines the following terms except: culture, to enact, story, human |
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| why is taker culture so obsessed with prophets? |
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| because taker culture needs prophets to tell it how to live |
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| ishmael compares taker culture to |
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| an inventor testing a flying contraption |
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| why is the narrator reluctant to search for the rules by which to live? |
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| because it means his student-teacher relationship with Ishmael is nearing its end. |
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| which of the following is not one of the narrator's three basic laws of life? dont exterminate your competition for food, dont deny access to food to others, dont preserve food surpluses, dont destroy your competitors food supply to grow your own? |
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| dont preserve food surpluses |
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| taker culture took off at the beginning of the |
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| Ishmael often uses the socratic method to teach. the socratic method involves |
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| which statement about taker culture is false? Takers value tradition and history, Takers believe the world belongs to them, Takers value the new and innovative, Takers believe they are the end of evolution |
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| takers value tradition and history |
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| In ishmael's retelling of the story of cain and abel, abel represents |
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| Ishmael suggests that the narrator's first step toward changing the world is to |
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| with the narrator reading the newspaper and seeing an ad from a teacher looking for a student interested in saving the world |
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| where did the narrator first meet the gorilla? |
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| an empty office space with a gorilla in one of the rooms |
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| how does the gorilla communicate with the narrator? |
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| who was the gorillas teacher |
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| how did walter sokolow obtain the gorilla |
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| he purchased him from a traveling carnival |
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| who taught the gorilla how to communicate telepathicly? |
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| what was ishmaels primary investigation |
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| about the issue of captivity |
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| what does ishamel spend his time doing |
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| living in the city off of walter sokolows estate after his death and looks for students to help spread his teachings |
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| what two groups does ishmael divide humans |
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| members of the dominant culture who see humans as the rulers of the world whose destiny is to grow without check and dominate first the planet, then the universe, through technological innovations |
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| Leavers are members of tribal cultures that live more simply, following the same basic rules that govern other populations on Earth |
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| what is ishamels opinion of the takers |
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| Taker culture is in freefall, doomed to crash once it has depleted the planet of its biological and environmental resources. |
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| what biblical story does ishamel tell to explain takers and leavers |
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| how did the takers look at the adam and eve story |
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| it explained their own creation |
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| how did the leavers look at the adam and eve story? |
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| the takers were eating from the tree to be like gods but in reality that doesnt belong to and life-form on earth |
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| why did the narrator miss a few meeting with ishamel at the end of their discussions |
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| he got caught up with personal matters |
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| what happend to ishamel after the narrator couldnt make a few meetings |
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| he was back in a traveling carnival |
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| what happened when the narrator got enough cash to buy ishamel from the circus owner? |
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| ishamel had died from pneumonia |
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| what did the narrator do after the death of ishamel? |
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| he became a teacher and tried to teach others about the problems with taker culture. |
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| the narrator is ishamels ____ student |
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| what happened to all of ishamels other students |
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| they became beaten down by the end of his instruction |
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| is the narrator confident in his teaching abilites after ishamels death |
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| who is ishamels caretaker after her father (walter) death? |
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| when did rachel sokolow die |
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| shortly before the narrator comes to know ishmael |
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| who is walter sokolows butler who still cares for Ishmael even though Ishmael no longer lives on the Sokolow estate? |
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| did ishmael mentor rachel sokolow and develop a close bond? |
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| who helps the narrator come to terms with his own short sightedness? |
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| where was ishmael taken from? |
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| from the jungles of west africa |
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| who sold ishamel to the traveling circus during the great depression? |
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| the zoo in the united states |
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| what was ishmael called while he was in the traveling circus? |
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| where did ishmael stay on walters estate |
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| how did ishmael learn to communicate telepathically? |
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| walter was talking to ishmael about his family dying in the holocaust not thinking he can understand until he touched his hand so he taught him how to communicate |
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| through his friendship with ishmael walter |
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| recovers from grief, marries and has a daughter (rachel) |
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| where does the name ishmael come from |
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| the cast-off son of abraham |
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| what is the driving question behind the novel? |
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| why are things the way they are? |
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| the explanation of the relationship between humans, the world, and the gods. |
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| definition of "to enact" something |
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| is to live as if a certain story is a reality |
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| a group of people enacting a story |
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| what homework did ishamel give about culture |
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| try to figure out his cultures creation myth |
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| As a "mother," culture nurtures us, feeds us, and gives us the tools to understand the culture into which we are born |
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| what did ishmael want the narrator to record in the tape recorder at the beginning of one of their meetings? |
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| the narrators creation myth |
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| what point did ishamel make to the narrator about his creation myth |
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| that takers believe the earth was made to support human life and this shapes much of the takers behavior |
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| what story did ishmael tell to make a point to the narrator about his creation myth |
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| a blob of jelly and a jellyfish |
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| why does ishmael say they were sightseeing one day? |
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| Through this metaphor, Ishmael helps the narrator understand what they've accomplished: they've started to see the landmarks of Taker culture that the narrator has taken for granted his entire life. Now that the landmarks are in place, Ishmael foreshadows that the narrator is ready for the next step — to see the world through the Leavers' eyes, rather than the Takers'. |
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| what three ways did the takers gods trick them |
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| First, they're (the Takers) not the center of the universe, though they act like they are. Second, humans evolved just like everything else, even though they feel above evolution. And third, that they're not actually exempt from the laws of life |
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