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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 quick and shallow.
(b) It is beating heavily.
(c) It does not feel like it is beating.
(d) It feels like it could explode.

2. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 1,253 pages.
(b) 469 pages.
(c) 917 pages.
(d) 251 pages.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?

2. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

3. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?

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

5. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?

(see the answer key)

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