The Humans: A Novel Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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The Humans: A Novel Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Matt Haig
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 164 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 149-179.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 917 pages.
(b) 1,253 pages.
(c) 251 pages.
(d) 469 pages.

2. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?
(a) A test.
(b) A tragedy.
(c) A trial.
(d) A betrayal.

3. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?
(a) Because he wants to collect more information from her.
(b) Because Isobel scolds him for his rudeness.
(c) Because Gulliver asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(d) Because Newton asks him why he did not say goodbye.

4. Where has Andrew Martin taught?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Berkeley.

5. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him the pleasure of counting.
(b) It gives him a satisfying blindness.
(c) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.
(d) It gives him nostalgia for home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

2. What does the narrator learn from questioning Gulliver?

3. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?

4. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?

5. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

(see the answer key)

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