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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 say makes events important to people?
(a) Their spiritual importance.
(b) Their distance from them.
(c) Their proximity to them.
(d) Their mathematical importance.

2. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Wired.
(b) Ladies Home Journal.
(c) Playboy.
(d) Cosmopolitan.

3. What does the narrator say must be a chief cause of sexual relationships on earth?
(a) The thickness of the atmosphere.
(b) The strength of the planet’s magnetic field.
(c) The dark night sky.
(d) The shape of human bodies.

4. 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) What’s in it for you?
(d) Why do you think I care?

5. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?
(a) Gulliver coming home.
(b) The postman knocking.
(c) The phone ringing.
(d) Newton barking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daniel Russell greet the narrator?

2. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?

3. What does Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?

4. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?

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

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