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

2. How far away would the orange need to be, in the narrator's illustration, to represent how far away Vonnadoria would be?
(a) In Mercury’s orbit.
(b) In Canada.
(c) In New Zealand.
(d) In Italy.

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

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

5. Who tells Gulliver that his father was taken by aliens?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Isobel.
(c) Ari.
(d) The replacement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a person need to stay true, or in order for their love to be true, according to the narrator?

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

3. Who sees the narrator in his native form after he saves Gulliver?

4. What does the note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?

5. Where does the narrator say Isobel is inviting him when she invites him upstairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?

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

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

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

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

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

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