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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 question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?
(a) Why do you think I care?
(b) How will you live without me?
(c) Who’s going to stop me?
(d) What’s in it for you?

2. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?
(a) A hillside.
(b) A plant.
(c) A crowd of people at a distance.
(d) The parking lot.

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

4. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?
(a) Tatooine.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Endor.
(d) Venus.

5. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?
(a) Because Isobel comes into the room with a question for him.
(b) Because he needs to talk to Gulliver about school.
(c) Because there are no cosmic consequences if he does.
(d) Because he is afraid she will see that he is not her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?

2. Where has Andrew Martin taught?

3. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?

4. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

5. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with human music?

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

7. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?

8. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about the Martins’ household?

9. How does Haig characterize the marriage between Andrew and Isobel Martin?

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

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