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

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

3. What is the top secret thing Ari mentions to the narrator?
(a) Andrew Martin’s proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.
(b) The narrator’s true origins.
(c) Andrew Martin’s affair with Maggie.
(d) The true cause of Daniel Russell’s death.

4. What does the narrator say is the biggest act of bravery or madness a human being can commit?
(a) To love.
(b) To change.
(c) To move.
(d) To grieve.

5. Where does the narrator say that love stems from?
(a) The inevitability of death.
(b) The depths of grief.
(c) The heat of desire.
(d) The possibility of pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away would the orange need to be, in the narrator's illustration, to represent how far away Vonnadoria would be?

2. What does the narrator say happens when everything becomes alien?

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

4. What does the narrator say the point of love is?

5. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

2. What does Ari tell the narrator about the possibility of aliens?

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

4. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?

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

6. Why does the narrator say he did not try to patch things up with Isobel?

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

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

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

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

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