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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. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?
(a) Quotation marks.
(b) A different font.
(c) Boldface.
(d) Italics.

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

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

4. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?
(a) Murky.
(b) Thin.
(c) Bountiful.
(d) Stark.

5. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?
(a) The inevitability of death for Isobel and Gulliver.
(b) The unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.
(c) The purity of reason.
(d) The mathematical certainty of his mission.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?

4. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?

5. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?

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