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

2. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?
(a) Ann Sexton.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Robinson Jeffers.
(d) Rumi.

3. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?
(a) That they control their lives.
(b) That they are alone.
(c) That they are divine.
(d) That they are advanced.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?

2. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

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

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

5. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?

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