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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator say he always needed, instead of emotions?
2. Why does the replacement say humans need to be limited in their technology?
3. What is represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?
4. Who tells Gulliver that his father was taken by aliens?
5. What is the consequence for the narrator, of bringing Gulliver back to life?
Short Essay Questions
1. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?
2. What happens when the narrator tells Isobel about having sex with Maggie?
3. How can the narrator tell that someone was in his house?
4. Why does the narrator say he did not try to patch things up with Isobel?
5. What does the narrator learn from the fall he takes with Gulliver?
6. What brings the narrator back to Isobel and Gulliver?
7. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?
8. What effect does the evening out at Hamlet have on Isobel?
9. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?
10. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the audience for The Humans? What is the ideal reader for The Humans likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 2
When is The Humans most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
How would The Humans be different if it were narrated by a female mathematician? How might the humor change? How might the moral vision change?
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