The Humans: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Matt Haig
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The Humans: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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 test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Relief.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Pain.

2. What does the narrator say is the best way to get someone on your side?
(a) Show them your vulnerability.
(b) Serve them food.
(c) Relieve their pain.
(d) Show them what you stand for.

3. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?
(a) It made him a curiosity.
(b) It made him a laughing stork.
(c) It made him a celebrity.
(d) It ruined his life.

4. What is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?
(a) Making love.
(b) Shoplifting.
(c) Being arrested.
(d) Being hit by a car.

5. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) Nostalgia for home.
(b) The air he is breathing.
(c) The chicken Isobel cooked him.
(d) The memory of Russell’s dying face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator learn from questioning Gulliver?

2. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?

3. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?

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

5. What is the narrator’s favorite primer number?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator’s relationship with pain like?

2. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?

3. How does Andrew Martin characterize his discovery in the introduction the narrator reads?

4. Why does the narrator say that Andrew Martin’s discovery needs to be erased?

5. How does the narrator ultimately get himself out of prison?

6. What is the narrator’s first experience of food and drink like?

7. What makes the narrator’s narrative so funny?

8. How does the narrator characterize life in the world he comes from?

9. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with Newton, the family dog?

10. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with his hosts, now that he is getting accustomed to Andrew Martin’s life?

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