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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 say is as universal as oxygen?
(a) Grief.
(b) Love.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Imagination.

2. How long does Isobel say it has been, since she and her husband talked as openly as they talk after Hamlet?
(a) They have never talked so openly.
(b) Years.
(c) Months.
(d) Decades.

3. Who tells Gulliver that his father was taken by aliens?
(a) Ari.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Isobel.
(d) The replacement.

4. How does the narrator define human life?
(a) An act of effrontery.
(b) An act of impossible odds.
(c) An act of submission.
(d) An act of defiance.

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

6. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?
(a) Her soft voice.
(b) Her nose.
(c) Her smell.
(d) Her hair.

7. How does the narrator try to blunt the replacement’s power?
(a) By cutting his left hand off.
(b) By sitting him on the purple couch.
(c) By turning the TV on.
(d) By taking him outside.

8. What injury does the narrator suffer after falling from the roof with Gulliver?
(a) He only suffers cuts and bruises.
(b) He breaks his arm.
(c) He punctures a lung.
(d) He breaks his legs.

9. How many students does Andrew Martin have, when the narrator walks into his classroom?
(a) 34.
(b) 220.
(c) 102.
(d) 88.

10. What is the narrator moved by at Daniel Russell’s funeral?
(a) Isobel’s generosity toward Tabitha.
(b) Tabitha’s genuine grief.
(c) The mourners’ beautiful singing.
(d) His own artificial tears.

11. How does Gulliver make the narrator forget his worries?
(a) By playing a song on the guitar.
(b) By saying that he loves him.
(c) By getting good grades in school.
(d) By reciting Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

12. Why does the replacement say humans need to be limited in their technology?
(a) If they understand the power of mathematics, they will use it to enrich themselves.
(b) If they ever get off the planet, they will not be friendly.
(c) If they learn how to communicate, they will sow divisions in Vonnadorian society.
(d) If they see the splendor of mathematics, they will lose their minds.

13. Where do the narrator and Maggie go from his office?
(a) To a river bank.
(b) To a pub.
(c) To an empty classroom.
(d) To his house.

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

15. What does the narrator say he found terrifying about making love with Maggie?
(a) The alienation.
(b) The violence.
(c) The exoticism.
(d) The dysfunction.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize his feelings before making love with Isobel?

2. What part of the night sky does the narrator say affects humans?

3. What does the narrator hold onto, in the ambulance, when he lets go of everything else in the world?

4. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?

5. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?

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