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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator conclude human beings enjoy about music?
(a) Its orderliness.
(b) Its clear laws.
(c) Its patterns.
(d) Its contradictions.

2. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?
(a) They are not geometrical enough.
(b) They chafe.
(c) He prefers glorious nakedness.
(d) They are embarrassing.

3. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As beautiful.
(b) As familiar.
(c) As alien to him.
(d) As impossible to differentiate between.

4. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Patient.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Malleable.
(d) Normal.

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

6. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
(a) 12 years old.
(b) 2 years old.
(c) 16 years old.
(d) 9 years old.

7. What is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?
(a) Being hit by a car.
(b) Making love.
(c) Being arrested.
(d) Shoplifting.

8. What does the narrator say human news ought to be called?
(a) The Greed and Violence show.
(b) The Dog and Pony show.
(c) The Fame and Embarrassment show.
(d) The War and Money show.

9. Who is the narrator’s audience?
(a) Isobel and Gulliver Martin.
(b) Venusians.
(c) Vonnadorians.
(d) Humans.

10. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?
(a) Enhance human mathematics.
(b) Provide regular reports about political events.
(c) Destroy evidence.
(d) Gather information.

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

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

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

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

15. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He wags his tail and licks him.
(b) He bites him.
(c) He does not notice him.
(d) He growls in his sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?

2. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?

3. What does the narrator say human news is about?

4. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

5. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?

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