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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 210-230; Part 3, pages 231-246.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) They will send a replacement.
(b) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.
(c) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(d) He will be recalled violently.

2. How does the narrator demonstrate his powers to Gulliver?
(a) He shows Gulliver the gifts in his left hand.
(b) He shows him how he healed Newton’s pains.
(c) He turns a brown leaf green in his hand.
(d) He hypnotizes Gulliver.

3. What does the narrator say happens when everything becomes alien?
(a) The breakdown begins.
(b) Reason emerges.
(c) It is time to go.
(d) The alien becomes familiar.

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

5. What does the narrator say happens after he fails to kill Isobel?
(a) He says that she threatened to kill him.
(b) He says that his head was taken over by violet pain.
(c) He says that he became fully human.
(d) He says that he became a me instead of a we.

Short Answer Questions

1. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?

2. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?

3. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?

4. What is the title of Isobel’s novel?

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

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