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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 try to blunt the replacement’s power?
(a) By cutting his left hand off.
(b) By taking him outside.
(c) By sitting him on the purple couch.
(d) By turning the TV on.

2. What does the narrator say when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?
(a) Those people are dead, now.
(b) He must have loved you.
(c) That was a lifetime ago.
(d) I really loved you then.

3. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe outside the restaurant?
(a) About his plans for the future.
(b) About his new esteem for humans.
(c) About his hopes for Gulliver.
(d) About his origins.

4. What does the narrator say opened in him as he left Andrew Martin’s house?
(a) The eye of God.
(b) A blind spot.
(c) A blank spot.
(d) A black hole.

5. What happens when the narrator reaches out to touch Isobel’s neck and kill her?
(a) The narrator has a qualm of conscience and stops.
(b) Gulliver bursts in and interrupts.
(c) She turns over and says she loves him.
(d) Newton growls at him and stops him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator get a teaching job?

2. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?

3. How do the narrator’s hosts characterize human beings?

4. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?

5. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator get Gulliver’s buy-in for his authority and power?

3. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?

9. How does the narrator characterize human sex?

10. What contrast does the narrator draw between his home and Earth, after Isobel takes care of him?

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