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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 when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?
(a) Those people are dead, now.
(b) That was a lifetime ago.
(c) He must have loved you.
(d) I really loved you then.
2. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?
(a) The cushions are too soft.
(b) The purple color is painful to him.
(c) The texture reminds of him of Daniel Russell’s skin.
(d) The fabric smells funny.
3. How does the narrator say Gulliver can accept him easiest?
(a) As an alien.
(b) As a devoted husband.
(c) As a father.
(d) As a mathematician.
4. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
(a) Home to Isobel and Gulliver’s house.
(b) Home to Boston.
(c) Home to Vonnadoria.
(d) Home to California.
5. How does Ari characterize the duration of human history?
(a) The moment of a sneeze.
(b) The blink of an eye.
(c) The length of a fart.
(d) The flush of a toilet.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the consequence for the narrator, of bringing Gulliver back to life?
2. What reason does the narrator provide for why humans love?
3. Who is Nat?
4. Who does Maggie say the narrator looks like?
5. How do the narrator’s hosts characterize human beings?
Short Essay Questions
1. What effect does the evening out at Hamlet have on Isobel?
2. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?
3. How does the narrator convince Gulliver that he is telling the truth, when the replacement comes, impersonating Andrew Martin, to kill Gulliver?
4. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?
5. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?
6. What do the narrator’s hosts say when he tells them that he needs more time?
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. How does Maggie characterize what it means to be human?
9. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?
10. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?
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