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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 180-209.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
(a) Debussy’s Clair de Lune.
(b) Tchaikovsky’s concertos.
(c) Palestrina’s psalms.
(d) Mozart’s Requiem.

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

3. How does the narrator characterize his feelings before making love with Isobel?
(a) Terrifying desire.
(b) Pleasurable fear.
(c) Satisfying uncertainty.
(d) Unbearable pleasure.

4. What does the narrator say when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?
(a) That was a lifetime ago.
(b) Those people are dead, now.
(c) He must have loved you.
(d) I really loved you then.

5. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To teach a class at Cambridge.
(b) To visit her mother.
(c) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(d) The supermarket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator say Isobel is inviting him when she invites him upstairs?

2. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?

3. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe outside the restaurant?

4. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?

5. What is life like for the narrator after he loses his gifts?

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