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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 his feelings before making love with Isobel?
(a) Terrifying desire.
(b) Satisfying uncertainty.
(c) Pleasurable fear.
(d) Unbearable pleasure.

2. What is the title of Isobel’s novel?
(a) Deeper Than the Ocean.
(b) Darker Than the Night.
(c) Wider Than the Sky.
(d) Longer Than Time.

3. What is the narrator’s suggestion to Isobel, regarding Gulliver?
(a) Send him to boarding school.
(b) Punish him.
(c) Accept him.
(d) Discipline him.

4. What does the narrator say is as universal as oxygen?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Grief.
(d) Love.

5. Who is Nat?
(a) The narrator’s replacement’s replacement.
(b) Gulliver’s girlfriend.
(c) Isobel’s sister.
(d) The narrator’s mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell Ari when Ari comes to visit him after he is attacked?

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

3. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe outside the restaurant?

4. What is Ari’s response to the thing the narrator tells him?

5. What is it that proves the narrator’s humanity to him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?

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

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

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

7. How does the narrator defuse the humor and anxiety in his classroom, when he returns to teaching for the first time after being arrested for being naked?

8. Why does the narrator put his hand on the AGA where the replacement’s hand had been burned?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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