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

2. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?
(a) It soothes him.
(b) It silences him.
(c) It makes him nostalgic.
(d) He hates it.

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

4. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?
(a) Venus.
(b) Endor.
(c) Tatooine.
(d) Pluto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

2. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

3. Where has Andrew Martin taught?

4. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

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

(see the answer key)

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