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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) Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
(b) Holst’s The Planets.
(c) Bizet’s Carmen.
(d) Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.

2. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?
(a) Fear.
(b) Love.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Disbelief.

3. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?
(a) It prevents the spread of misunderstanding.
(b) It reduces suffering in the universe.
(c) It puts humans out of their misery.
(d) It saves many lives.

4. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?
(a) The city center.
(b) The river.
(c) The train tracks.
(d) The highway.

5. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?
(a) That they are alone.
(b) That they control their lives.
(c) That they are advanced.
(d) That they are divine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?

2. What does the narrator learn from questioning Gulliver?

3. What does the narrator say human news is about?

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

5. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens in the narrator’s interview with Andrew Martin’s wife Isobel?

7. What makes the narrator’s narrative so funny?

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

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

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

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