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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 50-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?
(a) It is beating heavily.
(b) It feels like it could explode.
(c) It is beating quick and shallow.
(d) It does not feel like it is beating.

2. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?
(a) Newton barking.
(b) The postman knocking.
(c) The phone ringing.
(d) Gulliver coming home.

3. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?
(a) Distrust and suspicion.
(b) Mutual regard.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Deep hostility.

4. What does the narrator say human news ought to be called?
(a) The Greed and Violence show.
(b) The War and Money show.
(c) The Fame and Embarrassment show.
(d) The Dog and Pony show.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

2. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?

3. Who is the narrator’s audience?

4. What does the narrator say human news is about?

5. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

(see the answer key)

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