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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 is the narrator’s response when he and Gulliver see the boy who bullied Gulliver?
(a) He turns around so the boy doesn’t see them.
(b) He hypnotizes the boy and adjusts his mind.
(c) He protects Gulliver from the boy.
(d) He challenges the boy to fight.

2. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?
(a) Gulliver was expelled from school for arson.
(b) Gulliver ran away from home.
(c) Gulliver was arrested for smoking pot.
(d) Gulliver got in a bad car wreck.

3. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?
(a) Because they are listening.
(b) Because the fate of the universe depends on his actions.
(c) Because they have sent a replacement.
(d) Because he might be disciplined.

4. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?
(a) Its respect for absolute decrees.
(b) Its mythical narratives.
(c) Its love for fellow human beings.
(d) Its focus on the open-ended nature of human experience.

5. Where does the narrator say Isobel is inviting him when she invites him upstairs?
(a) To the alternate reality of sex.
(b) To a box of dark memories.
(c) To an envelope full of bills and responsibilities.
(d) To a series of hard conversations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the biggest act of bravery or madness a human being can commit?

2. What is Ari’s response to the thing the narrator tells him?

3. How far away would the orange need to be, in the narrator's illustration, to represent how far away Vonnadoria would be?

4. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?

5. How does the narrator try to get Gulliver to kill himself?

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