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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 71-96.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Irritation.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Bemusement.

2. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To teach a class at Cambridge.
(b) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(c) To visit her mother.
(d) The supermarket.

3. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(b) Whether he would like to go home.
(c) Whether he has been under pressure.
(d) Whether he likes being married.

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

5. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans revising their instincts.
(b) Humans suppressing their instincts.
(c) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(d) Humans acting on their instincts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

2. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

3. What trait does the narrator say makes up for the humans’ lack of physical attractiveness?

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

5. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?

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