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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 50-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?
(a) Shoplifting.
(b) Being arrested.
(c) Making love.
(d) Being hit by a car.

2. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?
(a) He cuts his finger in the kitchen.
(b) He hits his head in the shower.
(c) He bangs his shin on a coffee table.
(d) He stubs his toe on a door frame.

3. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?
(a) It feels like it could explode.
(b) It is beating quick and shallow.
(c) It does not feel like it is beating.
(d) It is beating heavily.

4. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?
(a) Bountiful.
(b) Stark.
(c) Murky.
(d) Thin.

5. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Distrust and suspicion.
(c) Deep hostility.
(d) Mutual regard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?

2. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

3. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

4. What does the narrator say human news ought to be called?

5. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?

(see the answer key)

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