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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 civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans acting on their instincts.
(b) Humans revising their instincts.
(c) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(d) Humans suppressing their instincts.

2. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?
(a) Because Isobel scolds him for his rudeness.
(b) Because Newton asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(c) Because Gulliver asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(d) Because he wants to collect more information from her.

3. What does the narrator say is as universal as oxygen?
(a) Love.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Grief.
(d) Loneliness.

4. What causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?
(a) Isobel brings him a sandwich.
(b) Gulliver says he hope he is feeling better.
(c) Ari gives him a ride home.
(d) Zӧe compliments him.

5. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?
(a) Boldface.
(b) Quotation marks.
(c) A different font.
(d) Italics.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?

5. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?

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