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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. How does the narrator characterize the pleasure he feels while making love with Maggie?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Anatomical.
(c) Incandescent.
(d) Phosphorescent.

2. How does the narrator say Gulliver can accept him easiest?
(a) As an alien.
(b) As a father.
(c) As a devoted husband.
(d) As a mathematician.

3. What does the note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?
(a) No one will miss me.
(b) I’m happier now.
(c) I’m sorry.
(d) You deserve this.

4. What does the narrator say must be a chief cause of sexual relationships on earth?
(a) The strength of the planet’s magnetic field.
(b) The dark night sky.
(c) The shape of human bodies.
(d) The thickness of the atmosphere.

5. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?
(a) The improbability of human life.
(b) The impossibility of escape from Earth.
(c) The ubiquity of threats to human life.
(d) The inevitability of his suffering and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students does Andrew Martin have, when the narrator walks into his classroom?

2. What does the narrator say is the biggest act of bravery or madness a human being can commit?

3. Who tells Gulliver that his father was taken by aliens?

4. What does Ari compare prime numbers to?

5. What does the narrator say when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brings the narrator back to Isobel and Gulliver?

2. What do the narrator’s hosts say when he tells them that he needs more time?

3. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?

4. What is the secret Ari has been keeping for Andrew Martin?

5. What does the narrator learn from the fall he takes with Gulliver?

6. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?

7. What explanation does the narrator offer the hosts, for his inability to perform the task he was sent to perform?

8. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?

9. How does the narrator finally break the hosts’ hold on him?

10. What does Gulliver tell the narrator he wants, now that all the facts have come out?

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