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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 human food does the narrator discover he likes a lot?
(a) Rice and beans.
(b) Foie gras.
(c) Sushi.
(d) Peanut butter.

2. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?
(a) Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
(b) Bizet’s Carmen.
(c) Holst’s The Planets.
(d) Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.

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

4. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Saved the universe.
(b) Saved humanity.
(c) Finished his job.
(d) Bought himself time.

5. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?
(a) The train tracks.
(b) The city center.
(c) The highway.
(d) The river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

2. How does the narrator know that someone has been in the house while he and Isobel slept?

3. What does the narrator say happens after he fails to kill Isobel?

4. What does the narrator conclude human beings enjoy about music?

5. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

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