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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 breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) Springer spaniel.
(b) Pekinese.
(c) Basset hound.
(d) German shepherd.

2. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To visit her mother.
(b) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(c) The supermarket.
(d) To teach a class at Cambridge.

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

4. Where has Andrew Martin taught?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Oxford.

5. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?
(a) He protests.
(b) He groans.
(c) He laments.
(d) He accuses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?

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

3. How does the narrator characterize dogs?

4. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?

5. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?

(see the answer key)

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