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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 effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it move around.
(b) It makes it throb.
(c) It makes it worse.
(d) It makes it disappear.

2. What trait does the narrator say makes up for the humans’ lack of physical attractiveness?
(a) Their rationality.
(b) Their gullibility.
(c) Their compassion.
(d) Their intelligence.

3. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?
(a) His face becomes his own.
(b) He briefly blacks out.
(c) He is exhausted for the energy of killing Russell.
(d) He feels pain in his shoulder.

4. How does the narrator convince Gulliver to trust him and to kill the replacement?
(a) He tells him he knows who sent the replacement.
(b) He invokes the brown leaf he turned green.
(c) He gets Newton to show Gulliver he trusts him.
(d) He tells him to think of Dordogne.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?

2. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

3. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?

4. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?

5. What does Kierkegaard say a man must pass through, to arrive at the perfection of everything human?

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