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

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

3. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?
(a) It made him a laughing stork.
(b) It ruined his life.
(c) It made him a curiosity.
(d) It made him a celebrity.

4. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?
(a) Because there are no cosmic consequences if he does.
(b) Because he is afraid she will see that he is not her son.
(c) Because he needs to talk to Gulliver about school.
(d) Because Isobel comes into the room with a question for him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe humans?

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

3. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

4. Who is the narrator’s audience?

5. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

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