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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 118-148.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 251 pages.
(b) 469 pages.
(c) 917 pages.
(d) 1,253 pages.

3. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?
(a) Fear.
(b) Disbelief.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Love.

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

5. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?
(a) He says that it was just Gulliver’s drugs.
(b) He says that Gulliver was defending himself.
(c) He says that he was only sleepwalking.
(d) He says that he deserved it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator moved by at Daniel Russell’s funeral?

2. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?

3. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

4. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?

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

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