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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 the narrator honest about with Daniel Russell?
(a) Andrew Martin’s proof.
(b) The existence of life on other planets.
(c) Andrew Martin’s marriage.
(d) His origins.

2. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?
(a) It made him a curiosity.
(b) It ruined his life.
(c) It made him a laughing stork.
(d) It made him a celebrity.

3. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?
(a) Quotation marks.
(b) Italics.
(c) A different font.
(d) Boldface.

4. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
(a) Debussy’s Clair de Lune.
(b) Palestrina’s psalms.
(c) Tchaikovsky’s concertos.
(d) Mozart’s Requiem.

5. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?
(a) Its mythical narratives.
(b) Its respect for absolute decrees.
(c) Its love for fellow human beings.
(d) Its focus on the open-ended nature of human experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?

2. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

3. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?

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

5. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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