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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 music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?
(a) Bizet’s Carmen.
(b) Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
(c) Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
(d) Holst’s The Planets.

2. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As familiar.
(b) As alien to him.
(c) As impossible to differentiate between.
(d) As beautiful.

3. What causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?
(a) Ari gives him a ride home.
(b) Isobel brings him a sandwich.
(c) Zӧe compliments him.
(d) Gulliver says he hope he is feeling better.

4. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?
(a) Russell’s wife’s concern.
(b) Russell’s wife’s panic.
(c) Daniel Russell’s stoicism.
(d) Daniel Russell’s fear.

5. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?
(a) Noses.
(b) Hair.
(c) Lips.
(d) Ears.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator conclude human beings enjoy about music?

3. What is the first step the narrator takes in killing Daniel Russell?

4. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

5. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the importance of prime numbers for the narrator?

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator tell Newton?

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

9. What happens to the narrator for the first time in his life when Isobel gives him a sandwich?

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

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