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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, pages 247-279.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?
(a) I’m sorry.
(b) No one will miss me.
(c) I’m happier now.
(d) You deserve this.

2. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?
(a) He says that Gulliver was defending himself.
(b) He says that he was only sleepwalking.
(c) He says that it was just Gulliver’s drugs.
(d) He says that he deserved it.

3. What prevents the narrator from telling Ari about his origins?
(a) Ari’s wife shows up.
(b) A violet headache.
(c) Gulliver interrupts.
(d) Maggie phones him.

4. What book does the narrator see on Gulliver’s bed?
(a) Franny and Zooey by Salinger.
(b) Ham on Rye by Bukowski.
(c) Naked Lunch by Burroughs.
(d) War and Peace by Tolstoy.

5. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
(a) Home to Vonnadoria.
(b) Home to Boston.
(c) Home to California.
(d) Home to Isobel and Gulliver’s house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?

2. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

3. What does the narrator attribute Newton’s newfound liveliness to?

4. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

5. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?

(see the answer key)

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