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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 does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?
(a) The language of silent moments.
(b) The language of eyebrows.
(c) The language of frowns.
(d) The language of sighs.

2. Who is the narrator’s audience?
(a) Isobel and Gulliver Martin.
(b) Venusians.
(c) Vonnadorians.
(d) Humans.

3. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 917 pages.
(b) 469 pages.
(c) 1,253 pages.
(d) 251 pages.

4. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(b) Humans revising their instincts.
(c) Humans acting on their instincts.
(d) Humans suppressing their instincts.

5. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) The chicken Isobel cooked him.
(b) The memory of Russell’s dying face.
(c) Nostalgia for home.
(d) The air he is breathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?

2. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?

3. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?

4. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?

5. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is happening in the first scene the narrator describes in his narrative?

3. What does the narrator tell Newton?

4. What does the narrator learn about mathematicians that undermines his core beliefs about human beings?

5. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with his hosts, now that he is getting accustomed to Andrew Martin’s life?

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

7. How is the narrator ultimately captured by the police?

8. What is the narrator’s first experience of food and drink like?

9. Who does the narrator meet in the cafeteria in the jail?

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

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