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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 take comfort in, after Gulliver beats him?
(a) Gulliver’s apology.
(b) His pain.
(c) Isobel’s caretaking.
(d) His passivity.

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

3. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?
(a) He will never be able to return home.
(b) He will start to decompose in Earth’s atmosphere.
(c) He will have to start again as a human child.
(d) He will never become fully human.

4. Where do the narrator and Maggie go from his office?
(a) To an empty classroom.
(b) To a pub.
(c) To his house.
(d) To a river bank.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Gulliver that his father was taken by aliens?

2. What does Ari compare prime numbers to?

3. What part of the night sky does the narrator say affects humans?

4. What is the narrator moved by at Daniel Russell’s funeral?

5. How does the narrator convince Gulliver to trust him and to kill the replacement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What explanation does the narrator offer the hosts, for his inability to perform the task he was sent to perform?

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

6. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?

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

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 happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

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

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