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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 conclude after following Gulliver?
(a) That he is suicidal.
(b) That he is preparing for a weightlifting tournament.
(c) That he wants to avoid people.
(d) That he is dealing drugs.

2. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) Pekinese.
(b) Basset hound.
(c) Springer spaniel.
(d) German shepherd.

3. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?
(a) To supplement ethnographic research about how other people live.
(b) To provide political updates.
(c) To create a sense of inferiority in the reader.
(d) To generate envy in poorer humans.

4. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Ann Sexton.
(c) Rumi.
(d) Robinson Jeffers.

5. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Cosmopolitan.
(b) Playboy.
(c) Wired.
(d) Ladies Home Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?

2. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?

3. What color are word capsules in the world the narrator comes from?

4. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?

5. How does Daniel Russell greet the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens in the narrator’s interrogation by police?

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

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

4. Who are the main characters the narrator introduces at the beginning of the novel?

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

6. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with Newton, the family dog?

7. What is the narrator’s relationship with pain like?

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

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

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

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