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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 71-96.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(b) The supermarket.
(c) To teach a class at Cambridge.
(d) To visit her mother.

2. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He growls in his sleep.
(b) He bites him.
(c) He does not notice him.
(d) He wags his tail and licks him.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?

4. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?

5. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

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