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

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

3. What does the narrator say human news is about?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) War.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Humans.

4. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) German shepherd.
(b) Pekinese.
(c) Springer spaniel.
(d) Basset hound.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?

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 does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

(see the answer key)

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