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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 hold onto, in the ambulance, when he lets go of everything else in the world?
(a) Gulliver’s guitar pick.
(b) His gifts.
(c) Isobel’s hand.
(d) Newton’s leash.

2. What does Ari compare prime numbers to?
(a) Sirens.
(b) Cyclops.
(c) Centaurs.
(d) Harpies.

3. What does the narrator’s virus change Gulliver’s bullies’ names to on Facebook?
(a) I hurt because I am hurt.
(b) I am a source of shame.
(c) I have behaved badly.
(d) I beg for your forgiveness.

4. What does the narrator say is the biggest act of bravery or madness a human being can commit?
(a) To love.
(b) To grieve.
(c) To move.
(d) To change.

5. How does the narrator say Gulliver can accept him easiest?
(a) As an alien.
(b) As a devoted husband.
(c) As a father.
(d) As a mathematician.

6. Where does Winston Churchill tell the narrator he saw him earlier in the day?
(a) Near the narrator’s house.
(b) Outside Maggie’s dorm.
(c) On Ari’s road.
(d) At a Texaco station.

7. How does the narrator characterize the pleasure he feels while making love with Maggie?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Incandescent.
(c) Phosphorescent.
(d) Anatomical.

8. How does the narrator demonstrate his powers to Gulliver?
(a) He turns a brown leaf green in his hand.
(b) He shows him how he healed Newton’s pains.
(c) He shows Gulliver the gifts in his left hand.
(d) He hypnotizes Gulliver.

9. How does the narrator destroy the replacement’s gifts?
(a) By beheading him.
(b) By keeping the tv and radio on.
(c) By burning his hand on the stove.
(d) By cutting off his hand.

10. What does the narrator say happens after he fails to kill Isobel?
(a) He says that his head was taken over by violet pain.
(b) He says that she threatened to kill him.
(c) He says that he became fully human.
(d) He says that he became a me instead of a we.

11. What happens when the narrator reaches out to touch Isobel’s neck and kill her?
(a) She turns over and says she loves him.
(b) Newton growls at him and stops him.
(c) Gulliver bursts in and interrupts.
(d) The narrator has a qualm of conscience and stops.

12. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe outside the restaurant?
(a) About his plans for the future.
(b) About his hopes for Gulliver.
(c) About his new esteem for humans.
(d) About his origins.

13. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?
(a) Live in a single moment.
(b) Live forever.
(c) Defy death.
(d) Defy the messiness of life.

14. Who does Maggie say the narrator looks like?
(a) Rocky.
(b) Ivan Drago.
(c) Muhammad Ali.
(d) Jake LaMotta.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator and Maggie go from his office?

2. What does the narrator say when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?

3. What does the narrator say he found terrifying about making love with Maggie?

4. What does the note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?

5. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?

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