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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 97-117.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?
(a) Lips.
(b) Noses.
(c) Ears.
(d) Hair.

2. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) He will be recalled violently.
(b) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.
(c) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(d) They will send a replacement.

3. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Cosmopolitan.
(b) Ladies Home Journal.
(c) Playboy.
(d) Wired.

4. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?
(a) Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
(b) Holst’s The Planets.
(c) Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
(d) Bizet’s Carmen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

2. What trait does the narrator say makes up for the humans’ lack of physical attractiveness?

3. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?

4. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?

5. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?

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