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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Maggie characterize the experience of being human?
(a) Being told about gods you cannot hear from.
(b) Being given a car you cannot drive.
(c) Being money you cannot spend.
(d) Being shown a life you cannot live.

9. 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.

10. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about Isobel?
(a) She wants to move.
(b) She has been diagnosed with cancer.
(c) She is dating.
(d) She misses him.

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

12. What does the narrator say when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?
(a) I really loved you then.
(b) Those people are dead, now.
(c) He must have loved you.
(d) That was a lifetime ago.

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

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

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