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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 take comfort in, after Gulliver beats him?
2. What does the narrator say happens when everything becomes alien?
3. Where do the narrator and Maggie go from his office?
4. How do the narrator’s hosts characterize human beings?
5. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator characterize human sex?
2. What is the secret Ari has been keeping for Andrew Martin?
3. How does the narrator get Gulliver’s buy-in for his authority and power?
4. What contrast does the narrator draw between his home and Earth, after Isobel takes care of him?
5. How does the narrator convince Gulliver that he is telling the truth, when the replacement comes, impersonating Andrew Martin, to kill Gulliver?
6. How does the narrator defuse the humor and anxiety in his classroom, when he returns to teaching for the first time after being arrested for being naked?
7. What happens when the narrator tells Isobel about having sex with Maggie?
8. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?
9. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?
10. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?
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
Identify the source of the humor Matt Haig employs in The Humans. What strategies does he use to get the reader laughing, and how does he vary his technique so that he defines a range of comic possibilities? What is his comic territory?
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate your own reading of The Humans—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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