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

2. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?
(a) To generate envy in poorer humans.
(b) To provide political updates.
(c) To create a sense of inferiority in the reader.
(d) To supplement ethnographic research about how other people live.

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

4. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?
(a) That he is the smartest human on Earth.
(b) That he is above the law.
(c) That he is having an affair with his student.
(d) That he has just solved the Riemann Hypothesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?

2. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

3. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?

4. What does the narrator say this book is about?

5. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

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