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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 50-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?
(a) To supplement ethnographic research about how other people live.
(b) To generate envy in poorer humans.
(c) To provide political updates.
(d) To create a sense of inferiority in the reader.

2. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?
(a) Mutual regard.
(b) Deep hostility.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Distrust and suspicion.

3. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As beautiful.
(b) As familiar.
(c) As alien to him.
(d) As impossible to differentiate between.

4. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?
(a) Hair.
(b) Ears.
(c) Noses.
(d) Lips.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?

2. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

3. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?

4. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?

5. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?

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