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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the night sky does the narrator say affects humans?
(a) The brightness of the stars.
(b) Its orderliness.
(c) Its lifelessness.
(d) Its darkness.

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

3. What Talking Heads song does the narrator listen to over and over?
(a) Burning down the house.
(b) Once in a lifetime.
(c) This must be the place.
(d) Wild, wild life.

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator say happens when everything becomes alien?
(a) It is time to go.
(b) The breakdown begins.
(c) Reason emerges.
(d) The alien becomes familiar.

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

9. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?
(a) He says that Gulliver was defending himself.
(b) He says that he was only sleepwalking.
(c) He says that he deserved it.
(d) He says that it was just Gulliver’s drugs.

10. How does the narrator say he became human?
(a) By betraying reason.
(b) By showing defiance.
(c) By showing discipline.
(d) By marrying reason to emotion.

11. What does Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?
(a) Being broke.
(b) A black eye.
(c) Being powerless.
(d) Shoes too small.

12. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?
(a) He buries it.
(b) He takes it outside.
(c) He dissolves it in water.
(d) He cuts it up and puts it down the sink.

13. How does the narrator know that someone has been in the house while he and Isobel slept?
(a) Isobel’s computer is open.
(b) He hears footsteps.
(c) Newton barks at them.
(d) There are fresh footprints in the kitchen.

14. How does Ari characterize the duration of human history?
(a) The moment of a sneeze.
(b) The blink of an eye.
(c) The length of a fart.
(d) The flush of a toilet.

15. How far away would the orange need to be, in the narrator's illustration, to represent how far away Vonnadoria would be?
(a) In Canada.
(b) In Italy.
(c) In New Zealand.
(d) In Mercury’s orbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the narrator’s hosts characterize human beings?

2. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?

3. How does the narrator define human life?

4. What does the narrator say he always needed, instead of emotions?

5. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about Isobel?

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