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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 Maggie’s gaze?
(a) Startling frankness.
(b) Terrible honesty.
(c) Accusatory injury.
(d) Thoughtful restraint.

2. 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.

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

4. What does the narrator say has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?
(a) That be has been reborn.
(b) That me has been reprogrammed.
(c) That me is dead.
(d) That me has been converted.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?

2. What does the narrator say is the biggest act of bravery or madness a human being can commit?

3. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?

4. What prevents the narrator from telling Ari about his origins?

5. What does the narrator say the point of love is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the narrator convince Gulliver that he is telling the truth, when the replacement comes, impersonating Andrew Martin, to kill Gulliver?

9. How does the narrator characterize human sex?

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

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