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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. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?
(a) He prefers glorious nakedness.
(b) They chafe.
(c) They are not geometrical enough.
(d) They are embarrassing.

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

3. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
(a) 2 years old.
(b) 9 years old.
(c) 12 years old.
(d) 16 years old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?

2. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?

3. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?

4. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

5. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

(see the answer key)

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