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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. 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?
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Feynman.
(d) Newton.

2. What does the narrator’s virus change Gulliver’s bullies’ names to on Facebook?
(a) I beg for your forgiveness.
(b) I am a source of shame.
(c) I hurt because I am hurt.
(d) I have behaved badly.

3. How does the replacement try to get Gulliver to kill himself?
(a) By slitting his wrists.
(b) By asphyxiating himself.
(c) By hanging himself.
(d) By poisoning himself.

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

5. What does the note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?
(a) I’m sorry.
(b) No one will miss me.
(c) I’m happier now.
(d) You deserve this.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the replacement say humans need to be limited in their technology?

2. What does the narrator say is as universal as oxygen?

3. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?

4. What is the top secret thing Ari mentions to the narrator?

5. What does the narrator say must be a chief cause of sexual relationships on earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What effect does the host's “warning” have on the narrator (159)?

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

5. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?

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

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

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

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

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

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