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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. Why does Ari say that the idea of aliens can only be enjoyed as fiction?
(a) Because the crisis of science being wrong would destroy human knowledge.
(b) Because there would be panic if people thought it was possible.
(c) Because he does not think it is possible for there to be life elsewhere.
(d) Because the reality would push human beings out of the center of their own worldview.

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

3. What does the narrator attribute Newton’s newfound liveliness to?
(a) Lots of sleep.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Long walks.
(d) Peanut butter.

4. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?
(a) The unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.
(b) The purity of reason.
(c) The mathematical certainty of his mission.
(d) The inevitability of death for Isobel and Gulliver.

5. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?
(a) Fitzwilliam College.
(b) Emmanuel College.
(c) Trinity College.
(d) Downing College.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?

2. How does the narrator know that someone has been in the house while he and Isobel slept?

3. How does Ari characterize the duration of human history?

4. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

5. How does the narrator demonstrate his powers to Gulliver?

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