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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 25-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?
(a) Their spiritual importance.
(b) Their distance from them.
(c) Their mathematical importance.
(d) Their proximity to them.

2. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(b) Humans revising their instincts.
(c) Humans suppressing their instincts.
(d) Humans acting on their instincts.

3. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Violence.
(c) Love.
(d) Departure.

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

5. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?
(a) A tragedy.
(b) A trial.
(c) A test.
(d) A betrayal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?

4. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

5. How does the narrator describe humans?

(see the answer key)

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