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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 180-209.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?
(a) Because they are listening.
(b) Because they have sent a replacement.
(c) Because he might be disciplined.
(d) Because the fate of the universe depends on his actions.

3. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?
(a) The cushions are too soft.
(b) The texture reminds of him of Daniel Russell’s skin.
(c) The purple color is painful to him.
(d) The fabric smells funny.

4. What does the narrator conclude human beings enjoy about music?
(a) Its clear laws.
(b) Its contradictions.
(c) Its patterns.
(d) Its orderliness.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?

3. What is the consequence for the narrator, of bringing Gulliver back to life?

4. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

5. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?

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