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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, pages 247-279.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?
(a) The language of eyebrows.
(b) The language of frowns.
(c) The language of silent moments.
(d) The language of sighs.

2. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) The chicken Isobel cooked him.
(b) Nostalgia for home.
(c) The memory of Russell’s dying face.
(d) The air he is breathing.

3. Why does the narrator put his hand on the stove?
(a) To burn away the hosts’ ability to listen to his life.
(b) To evoke Isobel’s sympathy.
(c) To show Gulliver that he is willing to suffer for him.
(d) To make himself feel something.

4. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?
(a) The improbability of human life.
(b) The ubiquity of threats to human life.
(c) The impossibility of escape from Earth.
(d) The inevitability of his suffering and death.

5. Who sees the narrator in his native form after he saves Gulliver?
(a) Newton.
(b) Gulliver.
(c) Isobel.
(d) A neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

2. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?

3. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?

4. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

5. How does the narrator define human life?

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