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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 see the splendor of mathematics, they will lose their minds.
(d) If they ever get off the planet, they will not be friendly.

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

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

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

6. What prevents the narrator from telling Ari about his origins?
(a) A violet headache.
(b) Ari’s wife shows up.
(c) Gulliver interrupts.
(d) Maggie phones him.

7. What is the consequence for the narrator, of bringing Gulliver back to life?
(a) A violent headache.
(b) Great pain.
(c) Exhaustion.
(d) Delusional visions.

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

9. How does the narrator characterize his feelings before making love with Isobel?
(a) Pleasurable fear.
(b) Satisfying uncertainty.
(c) Unbearable pleasure.
(d) Terrifying desire.

10. Where does the narrator get a teaching job?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Yale.

11. How does the narrator try to get Gulliver to kill himself?
(a) By hanging himself.
(b) By taking pills.
(c) By falling down the stairs.
(d) By slitting his wrists.

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

13. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Feynman.
(c) Newton.
(d) Einstein.

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

15. Why does the narrator’s replacement say he did not make his presence known when he broke into the house a few nights before?
(a) He was not confident of his gifts.
(b) He was not ready to have murder on his conscience.
(c) He was afraid of the dog.
(d) He did not want to kill another Vonnadorian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maggie characterize the experience of being human?

2. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?

3. What does the narrator say the point of love is?

4. Why does the narrator put his hand on the stove?

5. What does the narrator say when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?

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