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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 learn how to communicate, they will sow divisions in Vonnadorian society.
(c) If they ever get off the planet, they will not be friendly.
(d) If they see the splendor of mathematics, they will lose their minds.

2. How does the narrator characterize human love?
(a) The warmest of annihilations.
(b) The highest of feelings.
(c) The most delicious of songs.
(d) The coldest of visions.

3. Why does Ari say that the idea of aliens can only be enjoyed as fiction?
(a) Because there would be panic if people thought it was possible.
(b) Because the reality would push human beings out of the center of their own worldview.
(c) Because he does not think it is possible for there to be life elsewhere.
(d) Because the crisis of science being wrong would destroy human knowledge.

4. What does the Vonnadorians’ understanding of prime numbers allow them to do?
(a) Colonize other planets.
(b) Inhabit other worlds.
(c) Time travel.
(d) Invent life forms.

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

6. What is the narrator’s suggestion to Isobel, regarding Gulliver?
(a) Punish him.
(b) Accept him.
(c) Discipline him.
(d) Send him to boarding school.

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

8. What does the narrator say must be a chief cause of sexual relationships on earth?
(a) The shape of human bodies.
(b) The dark night sky.
(c) The thickness of the atmosphere.
(d) The strength of the planet’s magnetic field.

9. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?
(a) The texture reminds of him of Daniel Russell’s skin.
(b) The purple color is painful to him.
(c) The fabric smells funny.
(d) The cushions are too soft.

10. What is it that proves the narrator’s humanity to him?
(a) A laugh.
(b) A teardrop.
(c) A moment of overwhelming emotion.
(d) A sob.

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

12. What is represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?
(a) The chemical composition of caffeine.
(b) The asymptotic nature of love.
(c) The chemical composition of alcohol.
(d) The chances of extra-terrestrial life.

13. What does the narrator say is as universal as oxygen?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Love.

14. Why does the narrator say he did not tell Gulliver to stop, when Gulliver started to beat him?
(a) He wanted to make it look like self-defense.
(b) He wanted to see what human violence was like.
(c) He could not breathe with Gulliver’s hand on his throat.
(d) He was willing to be killed rather than let Isobel and Gulliver be killed.

15. What does a person need to stay true, or in order for their love to be true, according to the narrator?
(a) The lover’s own heart.
(b) The idea of love.
(c) The beloved’s whims.
(d) Life’s delusions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?

2. Where does the narrator say that love stems from?

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

4. How does the narrator convince Gulliver to trust him and to kill the replacement?

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

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