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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 do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Patient.
(b) Normal.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Malleable.

2. 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.

3. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Relief.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Pain.

4. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?
(a) Provide regular reports about political events.
(b) Gather information.
(c) Destroy evidence.
(d) Enhance human mathematics.

5. What does the narrator say human news ought to be called?
(a) The Dog and Pony show.
(b) The War and Money show.
(c) The Fame and Embarrassment show.
(d) The Greed and Violence show.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

2. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?

3. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?

4. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

5. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?

(see the answer key)

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