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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 the narrator describe humans?
(a) As impossible to differentiate between.
(b) As alien to him.
(c) As beautiful.
(d) As familiar.

2. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?
(a) Provide regular reports about political events.
(b) Destroy evidence.
(c) Gather information.
(d) Enhance human mathematics.

3. Where has Andrew Martin taught?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Berkeley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say human news ought to be called?

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

3. What is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?

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

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

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