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

2. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
(a) 12 years old.
(b) 9 years old.
(c) 2 years old.
(d) 16 years old.

3. How does the narrator characterize dogs?
(a) Loving.
(b) Judicious.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Needy.

4. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?
(a) Because Gulliver asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(b) Because Newton asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(c) Because Isobel scolds him for his rudeness.
(d) Because he wants to collect more information from her.

5. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him the pleasure of counting.
(b) It gives him a satisfying blindness.
(c) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.
(d) It gives him nostalgia for home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?

2. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

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

4. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?

5. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

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