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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 210-230; Part 3, pages 231-246.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?
(a) They are not geometrical enough.
(b) They chafe.
(c) He prefers glorious nakedness.
(d) They are embarrassing.

2. Who is the narrator’s audience?
(a) Venusians.
(b) Isobel and Gulliver Martin.
(c) Vonnadorians.
(d) Humans.

3. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?
(a) The ubiquity of threats to human life.
(b) The impossibility of escape from Earth.
(c) The inevitability of his suffering and death.
(d) The improbability of human life.

4. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) Nostalgia for home.
(b) The air he is breathing.
(c) The chicken Isobel cooked him.
(d) The memory of Russell’s dying face.

5. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Show people their humble origins.
(b) Bring humanity closer to divinity.
(c) Provide more power.
(d) Bring riches to people who understand it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator’s virus change Gulliver’s bullies’ names to on Facebook?

2. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

3. What reason does the narrator provide for why humans love?

4. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?

5. Why does the narrator say he did not tell Gulliver to stop, when Gulliver started to beat him?

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