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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 do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Malleable.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Normal.
(d) Patient.

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

3. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?
(a) She gets up and leaves the room.
(b) She weeps and throws a glass at him.
(c) She tells him to eat his sandwich.
(d) She starts to laugh.

4. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans acting on their instincts.
(b) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(c) Humans revising their instincts.
(d) Humans suppressing their instincts.

5. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?
(a) Fear of ridicule.
(b) Longing for glory.
(c) Lust for power.
(d) Need for approval.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

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

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

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

5. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?

(see the answer key)

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