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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) Unbearable pleasure.
(c) Pleasurable fear.
(d) Satisfying uncertainty.

2. Where does the epigram come from at the end of the book?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Talking Heads.
(c) Copernicus.
(d) Feynman.

3. How does Gulliver make the narrator forget his worries?
(a) By playing a song on the guitar.
(b) By reciting Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
(c) By getting good grades in school.
(d) By saying that he loves him.

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

5. What does the narrator say the point of love is?
(a) To help you survive.
(b) To make pain bearable.
(c) To lighten your loads.
(d) To remind you what is important.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?

2. What does the narrator hold onto, in the ambulance, when he lets go of everything else in the world?

3. What does the narrator say opened in him as he left Andrew Martin’s house?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?

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

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

7. How does the narrator characterize human sex?

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

9. 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?

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

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