So… to run some of the VB programs on here (such as the robotics programs), you may find you need the MsComm Control.

This site has some good information about this control, as well as a download link. Alternatively, I have their file backed up here.

After you download the file, put it in your c:\WINDOWS\system\ directory.

Question 1
In the novel, Ishmael, the phrase that the gorilla uses to represent society’s creation of a reality for an individual and a group is

Mother Culture
Question 2
at the end of the novel, the narrator expresses the idea that what he wants from Ishmael is

a program
Question 3
Daniel Quinn wrote the novel “Ishmael” in

the twentieth century
Question 4
According to Ishmael, if the takers accumulate knowledge about what works well for things, the leavers accumulate knowledge about what works well

for people
Question 5
The premise being acted out by Leaver cultures, according to the novel, Ishmael, is

humanity belongs to the world
Question 6
In the novel, Ishmael, the gorilla says there are two stories being enacted by humans at the present time:

the takers and the leavers
Question 7
Based on the text of the novel Ishmael, complete the following analogy. The Takers are to the Leavers as

Cain is to Abel
Question 9
In the novel, Ishmael, the dialogue eventually deals with a biblical story. Which biblical story is a key part of the novel?

Garden of Eden
Question 10
There are two trees in the biblical story of the garden of Eden, as recounted by Ishmael. One tree is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The other tree is

the tree of Life
Question 11
According to the novel, Ishmael, if the Takers know the one right way to live, Leavers

know the way that they prefer to live
Question 12
In the novel, Ishmael, members of the Taker culture assume that the birth of humanity and the birth of the Taker culture were, in fact the same event. Which of the following phrases best describes Ishmael’s assessment of this situation?

Cultural Amnesia
Question 14
The story of “the A’s, the B’s, and the C’s” can best be described as the story of

the circle of life
Question 15
According to Ishmael, the agriculture revolution occurs approximately

12,000 years ago
Question 17
In the novel, Ishmael, the section dealing with the jellyfish is intended to illustrate

that for jellyfish, the world appears to be made for jellyfish
Question 18
At the end of the novel, Ishmael, which scenario is more accurate:

Ishmael is dead
Question 19
Near the end of the novel Ishmael, the gorilla tells that one of his former pupils was a

prisoner
Question 20
In the last encounter between Ishmael and the narrator in the novel “Ishmael,” Ishmael says to the narrator

As a teacher, I have nothing more to give you. Even so, I would be pleased to count you as a friend.
Question 21
Near the beginning of the novel, Ishmael, the gorilla, comments on the power that Hitler had over the people of Nazi Germany. The source of that power, for Ishmael, was the fact that

Hitler had a story that was compelling
Question 22
The gorilla asserted that if Takers are those who know good and evil, then

Leavers are those who live in the hands of the gods
Question 23
In the novel, Ishmael, a sign appears at the beginning. It reads “With Man Gone, will there be Hope for Gorilla?” By the end of the novel you learn that the sign has another side. Printed on the other side is:

With Gorilla Gone, will there be Hope for Man
Question 24
In the novel Ishmael, the mark of Cain is reinterpreted, with the use of a vivid metaphor, so that the mark of Cain can be inferred to be

white skin
Question 25
In the story of Hans and Kurt, told at the beginning of the novel “Ishmael,” Kurt has a strange feeling. He says that he can’t shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing

that he is being lied to about.

Question 1
Oedipus Rex (or sometimes called Oedipus the King) was written by

Sophocles
Question 2
In the play Antigone,

Two brothers of Antigone are dead
Question 3
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, who first tells Oedipus that he is the ultimate cause of the problems confronting Thebes

Teiresias
Question 4
The riddle that Oedipus solved, which helped him save Thebes and become king, was the riddle of

the Sphinx
Question 5
At the beginning of Antigone, the decree set forth by Creon asserts that

one of Oedipus’s sons should not be buried
Question 6
In Antigone, when accused of a crime by Creon, Antigone

admits it
Question 7
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, what relation is Creon to Teiresias?

no relation
Question 8
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the end of the play is “not pretty.” Which of the following best describes the situation at the end of the play?

Oedipus is blind and Jocasta has committed suicide
Question 9
Inferring from the action of the play and from the themes encountered in Hum 319 and articulated by your instructor, which of the following best describes the play Oedipus the King?

knowing your true identity has consequences
Question 10
When considering Oedipus and Teiresias, what pair of terms best characterizes the implications of the action of Oedipus the King?

blindness and insight
Question 11
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, you find out near the end of the play that the King of Corinth has died and that Corinth wants Oedipus to become its king. What biological relation (this is the key here) is the King of Corinth to Oedipus

none of the above
Question 12
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, the character Creon can best be described as

the brother-in-law and uncle of Oedipus
Question 13
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus’ personality can best be characterized by which of the following

Angry and hot tempered
Question 14
In Oedipus, Tiresias

angers Oedipus by being evasive
Question 15
Oedipus is thrice cursed in

his killing, his marriage, and his birth
Question 16
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, who really killed king Laios?

Oedipus
Question 17
The name “Oedipus” means “the blind one who would nonetheless be able to see fate clearly if only he didn’t speak Greek.”

False
Question 19
The prophecies in the play Oedipus the King

were all true
Question 20
At the end of Oedipus at Colonus,

Oedipus experiences death and is transfigured, reaches an apotheosis, and has become one of the “kindly ones”
Question 21
The sons of Oedipus in Oedipus at Colonus are

Eteocles and Polynices
Question 22
In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, what did the oracle say was the cause of the plague that infected Thebes?

the king had been murdered and the crime was not acknowledged
Question 23
Teiresias, in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, is

the blind prophet
Question 24
Why did his parents abandon Oedipus to die from exposure to the elements?

none of the above
Question 25
At the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus is taken care of by

his daughter