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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 149-179.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?
(a) Its focus on the open-ended nature of human experience.
(b) Its mythical narratives.
(c) Its love for fellow human beings.
(d) Its respect for absolute decrees.

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

3. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?
(a) Who’s going to stop me?
(b) How will you live without me?
(c) Why do you think I care?
(d) What’s in it for you?

4. What is the narrator’s suggestion to Isobel, regarding Gulliver?
(a) Accept him.
(b) Punish him.
(c) Send him to boarding school.
(d) Discipline him.

5. How does the narrator try to get Gulliver to kill himself?
(a) By taking pills.
(b) By hanging himself.
(c) By slitting his wrists.
(d) By falling down the stairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?

2. What is the title of Isobel’s novel?

3. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?

4. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?

5. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

(see the answer key)

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