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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator demonstrate his powers to Gulliver?
(a) He turns a brown leaf green in his hand.
(b) He hypnotizes Gulliver.
(c) He shows him how he healed Newton’s pains.
(d) He shows Gulliver the gifts in his left hand.

2. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?
(a) Defy death.
(b) Defy the messiness of life.
(c) Live in a single moment.
(d) Live forever.

3. What does the narrator say he found terrifying about making love with Maggie?
(a) The exoticism.
(b) The alienation.
(c) The dysfunction.
(d) The violence.

4. How does the replacement try to get Gulliver to kill himself?
(a) By hanging himself.
(b) By slitting his wrists.
(c) By poisoning himself.
(d) By asphyxiating himself.

5. What happens when the narrator reaches out to touch Isobel’s neck and kill her?
(a) She turns over and says she loves him.
(b) Gulliver bursts in and interrupts.
(c) Newton growls at him and stops him.
(d) The narrator has a qualm of conscience and stops.

6. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about Isobel?
(a) She misses him.
(b) She is dating.
(c) She wants to move.
(d) She has been diagnosed with cancer.

7. How does Gulliver make the narrator forget his worries?
(a) By reciting Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
(b) By getting good grades in school.
(c) By playing a song on the guitar.
(d) By saying that he loves him.

8. What does Ari compare prime numbers to?
(a) Sirens.
(b) Cyclops.
(c) Harpies.
(d) Centaurs.

9. How does the narrator destroy the replacement’s gifts?
(a) By burning his hand on the stove.
(b) By keeping the tv and radio on.
(c) By beheading him.
(d) By cutting off his hand.

10. How does the narrator define human life?
(a) An act of impossible odds.
(b) An act of effrontery.
(c) An act of submission.
(d) An act of defiance.

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

12. What is the consequence for the narrator, of bringing Gulliver back to life?
(a) Great pain.
(b) A violent headache.
(c) Exhaustion.
(d) Delusional visions.

13. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?
(a) The improbability of human life.
(b) The ubiquity of threats to human life.
(c) The inevitability of his suffering and death.
(d) The impossibility of escape from Earth.

14. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?
(a) Their deaths will arouse suspicions.
(b) Their deaths are mathematically superfluous.
(c) He has a chance of truly seeing them.
(d) Their innocence will stain the Vonnadorians’ consciences.

15. What does the narrator tell Ari when Ari comes to visit him after he is attacked?
(a) That he has broken off with Maggie.
(b) That he did solve the Riemann Hypothesis.
(c) That he is from another planet.
(d) That football is boring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ari say that the idea of aliens can only be enjoyed as fiction?

2. What does a person need to stay true, or in order for their love to be true, according to the narrator?

3. What is represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?

4. What injury does the narrator suffer after falling from the roof with Gulliver?

5. Who sees the narrator in his native form after he saves Gulliver?

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