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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 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.

2. Where does the narrator get a teaching job?
(a) Yale.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Harvard.

3. What is life like for the narrator after he loses his gifts?
(a) Fulfilling.
(b) Monotonous.
(c) Challenging.
(d) Confusing.

4. Where does the narrator say Isobel is inviting him when she invites him upstairs?
(a) To an envelope full of bills and responsibilities.
(b) To the alternate reality of sex.
(c) To a series of hard conversations.
(d) To a box of dark memories.

5. What injury does the narrator suffer after falling from the roof with Gulliver?
(a) He punctures a lung.
(b) He only suffers cuts and bruises.
(c) He breaks his legs.
(d) He breaks his arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator put his hand on the stove?

2. How does the narrator destroy the replacement’s gifts?

3. What is the narrator’s response when he and Gulliver see the boy who bullied Gulliver?

4. What does the narrator take comfort in, after Gulliver beats him?

5. What is Ari’s response to the thing the narrator tells him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

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

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator learn from the fall he takes with Gulliver?

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

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