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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He bites him.
(b) He growls in his sleep.
(c) He wags his tail and licks him.
(d) He does not notice him.

2. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?
(a) The inevitability of death for Isobel and Gulliver.
(b) The mathematical certainty of his mission.
(c) The unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.
(d) The purity of reason.

3. What trait does the narrator say makes up for the humans’ lack of physical attractiveness?
(a) Their intelligence.
(b) Their gullibility.
(c) Their rationality.
(d) Their compassion.

4. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?
(a) Gather information.
(b) Destroy evidence.
(c) Provide regular reports about political events.
(d) Enhance human mathematics.

5. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?
(a) Longing for glory.
(b) Fear of ridicule.
(c) Need for approval.
(d) Lust for power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

2. What does the narrator say is the color of home?

3. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?

4. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

5. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Andrew Martin characterize his discovery in the introduction the narrator reads?

2. How does the narrator characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Gulliver, his son?

3. What does the narrator tell Newton?

4. What happens in the narrator’s interview with Andrew Martin’s wife Isobel?

5. How does the narrator ultimately get himself out of prison?

6. How does the narrator characterize life in the world he comes from?

7. Why does the narrator say that Andrew Martin’s discovery needs to be erased?

8. What happens when the narrator calls Andrew Martin’s mother?

9. What does the narrator tell Daniel Russell before he kills him?

10. What is the narrator’s rhetorical stance in The Humans?

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