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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 is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?
(a) The language of silent moments.
(b) The language of sighs.
(c) The language of eyebrows.
(d) The language of frowns.

2. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?
(a) That he is dealing drugs.
(b) That he wants to avoid people.
(c) That he is preparing for a weightlifting tournament.
(d) That he is suicidal.

3. What does the narrator conclude human beings enjoy about music?
(a) Its clear laws.
(b) Its contradictions.
(c) Its orderliness.
(d) Its patterns.

4. 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.

5. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He does not notice him.
(b) He growls in his sleep.
(c) He wags his tail and licks him.
(d) He bites him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?

2. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?

3. How does the narrator characterize human love?

4. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

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

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