The Humans: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Matt Haig
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The Humans: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Matt Haig
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 164 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s favorite primer number?
(a) 7.
(b) 97.
(c) 617.
(d) 13.

2. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Beautiful and clean.
(b) Random and bewildering.
(c) Regular and scientific.
(d) Chaotic and mystifying.

3. What does the narrator learn from questioning Gulliver?
(a) That Andrew Martin’s family is quite wealthy.
(b) That no one likes him.
(c) That everyone in Gulliver’s school is proud of him.
(d) That Isobel Martin is about to leave him.

4. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Ladies Home Journal.
(b) Wired.
(c) Cosmopolitan.
(d) Playboy.

5. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
(a) Palestrina’s psalms.
(b) Mozart’s Requiem.
(c) Tchaikovsky’s concertos.
(d) Debussy’s Clair de Lune.

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

7. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?
(a) She starts to laugh.
(b) She tells him to eat his sandwich.
(c) She weeps and throws a glass at him.
(d) She gets up and leaves the room.

8. What is the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Omega.
(b) Iota.
(c) Alpha.
(d) Zeta.

9. What does the narrator say is the best way to get someone on your side?
(a) Serve them food.
(b) Show them what you stand for.
(c) Relieve their pain.
(d) Show them your vulnerability.

10. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?
(a) Trinity College.
(b) Emmanuel College.
(c) Fitzwilliam College.
(d) Downing College.

11. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 1,253 pages.
(b) 917 pages.
(c) 251 pages.
(d) 469 pages.

12. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) Basset hound.
(b) Pekinese.
(c) German shepherd.
(d) Springer spaniel.

13. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) He will be recalled violently.
(b) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.
(c) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(d) They will send a replacement.

14. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Pain.
(d) Relief.

15. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?
(a) Purple.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human food does the narrator discover he likes a lot?

2. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?

3. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

4. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?

5. What trait does the narrator say makes up for the humans’ lack of physical attractiveness?

(see the answer keys)

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