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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. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it move around.
(b) It makes it disappear.
(c) It makes it throb.
(d) It makes it worse.

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

3. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?
(a) That humanity is meaningless.
(b) That humanity teaches kindness and sympathy.
(c) That humanity will save the universe.
(d) That humanity deserves saving.

4. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?
(a) He is exhausted for the energy of killing Russell.
(b) His face becomes his own.
(c) He feels pain in his shoulder.
(d) He briefly blacks out.

5. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?
(a) Daniel Russell’s fear.
(b) Daniel Russell’s stoicism.
(c) Russell’s wife’s panic.
(d) Russell’s wife’s concern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?

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

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

4. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?

5. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?

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