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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. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?
(a) Ann Sexton.
(b) Robinson Jeffers.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Rumi.

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

3. What does the narrator say is the color of home?
(a) Maroon.
(b) Violet.
(c) Pink.
(d) Blue.

4. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans acting on their instincts.
(b) Humans revising their instincts.
(c) Humans suppressing their instincts.
(d) Humans harnessing their instincts.

5. What does the narrator say this book is about?
(a) How to become human.
(b) How to fall in love.
(c) How to kill a Vonnadorian.
(d) How to travel through time and space.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?

2. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

3. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

4. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?

5. How does the narrator characterize Maggie’s gaze?

(see the answer key)

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