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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 happens after he fails to kill Isobel?
(a) He says that he became a me instead of a we.
(b) He says that she threatened to kill him.
(c) He says that he became fully human.
(d) He says that his head was taken over by violet pain.

2. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
(a) Home to Boston.
(b) Home to California.
(c) Home to Vonnadoria.
(d) Home to Isobel and Gulliver’s house.

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

4. Why does the narrator’s replacement say he did not make his presence known when he broke into the house a few nights before?
(a) He was not confident of his gifts.
(b) He was afraid of the dog.
(c) He was not ready to have murder on his conscience.
(d) He did not want to kill another Vonnadorian.

5. Why does the replacement say humans need to be limited in their technology?
(a) If they see the splendor of mathematics, they will lose their minds.
(b) If they learn how to communicate, they will sow divisions in Vonnadorian society.
(c) If they understand the power of mathematics, they will use it to enrich themselves.
(d) If they ever get off the planet, they will not be friendly.

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 Isobel’s alter ego in her novel say will happen if she solves the mystery of her marriage?

3. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?

4. What injury does the narrator suffer after falling from the roof with Gulliver?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator get Gulliver’s buy-in for his authority and power?

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

3. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?

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

5. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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