View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Kierkegaard say a man must pass through, to arrive at the perfection of everything human?
(a) Hellish trials.
(b) The opposite of perfection.
(c) Otherworldly experiences.
(d) Refining visions.

6. Who is Nat?
(a) Isobel’s sister.
(b) The narrator’s mother.
(c) The narrator’s replacement’s replacement.
(d) Gulliver’s girlfriend.

7. What is the narrator’s response when he and Gulliver see the boy who bullied Gulliver?
(a) He challenges the boy to fight.
(b) He protects Gulliver from the boy.
(c) He turns around so the boy doesn’t see them.
(d) He hypnotizes the boy and adjusts his mind.

8. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
(a) Home to Boston.
(b) Home to Isobel and Gulliver’s house.
(c) Home to California.
(d) Home to Vonnadoria.

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

10. What does the narrator tell Ari when Ari comes to visit him after he is attacked?
(a) That he did solve the Riemann Hypothesis.
(b) That he is from another planet.
(c) That he has broken off with Maggie.
(d) That football is boring.

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

12. What reason does the narrator provide for why humans love?
(a) Because they are mortal.
(b) Because they are minor deities.
(c) Because they are thwarted.
(d) Because they are overflowing.

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

14. What does the narrator say has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?
(a) That be has been reborn.
(b) That me has been converted.
(c) That me has been reprogrammed.
(d) That me is dead.

15. What is the facet of prime numbers that makes them consoling to the narrator?
(a) Their indivisibility.
(b) Their mutability.
(c) Their importance in crucial formulae.
(d) Their adaptability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobel’s alter ego in her novel say will happen if she solves the mystery of her marriage?

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

3. What does Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?

4. How does the narrator try to blunt the replacement’s power?

5. What is the consequence for the narrator, of bringing Gulliver back to life?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 578 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample