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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 magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Wired.
(b) Playboy.
(c) Cosmopolitan.
(d) Ladies Home Journal.

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

3. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As impossible to differentiate between.
(b) As alien to him.
(c) As familiar.
(d) As beautiful.

4. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?
(a) A crowd of people at a distance.
(b) The parking lot.
(c) A plant.
(d) A hillside.

5. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(b) Whether he would like to go home.
(c) Whether he has been under pressure.
(d) Whether he likes being married.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?

2. Who is the narrator’s audience?

3. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?

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

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

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