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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 180-209.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?
(a) It does not feel like it is beating.
(b) It feels like it could explode.
(c) It is beating quick and shallow.
(d) It is beating heavily.

2. What injury does the narrator suffer after falling from the roof with Gulliver?
(a) He punctures a lung.
(b) He breaks his legs.
(c) He only suffers cuts and bruises.
(d) He breaks his arm.

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

4. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?
(a) That they are advanced.
(b) That they are alone.
(c) That they are divine.
(d) That they control their lives.

5. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(b) Whether he has been under pressure.
(c) Whether he likes being married.
(d) Whether he would like to go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?

2. How does the narrator characterize sex with Isobel?

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

4. Where does the narrator say that love stems from?

5. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

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