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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 say love allows humans to do?
(a) Defy the messiness of life.
(b) Live in a single moment.
(c) Defy death.
(d) Live forever.

2. What is the narrator’s response when he and Gulliver see the boy who bullied Gulliver?
(a) He turns around so the boy doesn’t see them.
(b) He challenges the boy to fight.
(c) He protects Gulliver from the boy.
(d) He hypnotizes the boy and adjusts his mind.

3. How do the narrator’s hosts characterize human beings?
(a) The least forgivable of criminals.
(b) The most tedious of freedoms.
(c) The simplest of problems.
(d) The shallowest of mysteries.

4. How does the narrator convince Gulliver to trust him and to kill the replacement?
(a) He tells him he knows who sent the replacement.
(b) He gets Newton to show Gulliver he trusts him.
(c) He tells him to think of Dordogne.
(d) He invokes the brown leaf he turned green.

5. What does the narrator say happens when everything becomes alien?
(a) The breakdown begins.
(b) It is time to go.
(c) Reason emerges.
(d) The alien becomes familiar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maggie say the narrator looks like?

2. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?

3. What reason does the narrator provide for why humans love?

4. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about Isobel?

5. What does the narrator’s virus change Gulliver’s bullies’ names to on Facebook?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the host's “warning” have on the narrator (159)?

2. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

3. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

4. What happens when the narrator tells Isobel about having sex with Maggie?

5. How can the narrator tell that someone was in his house?

6. What effect does the evening out at Hamlet have on Isobel?

7. How does Maggie characterize what it means to be human?

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

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

10. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?

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