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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 excuse Gulliver’s violence?
(a) He says that Gulliver was defending himself.
(b) He says that he deserved it.
(c) He says that it was just Gulliver’s drugs.
(d) He says that he was only sleepwalking.

2. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe outside the restaurant?
(a) About his hopes for Gulliver.
(b) About his plans for the future.
(c) About his origins.
(d) About his new esteem for humans.

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

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

5. What does the narrator tell Ari when Ari comes to visit him after he is attacked?
(a) That he did solve the Riemann Hypothesis.
(b) That football is boring.
(c) That he is from another planet.
(d) That he has broken off with Maggie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator’s replacement say he did not make his presence known when he broke into the house a few nights before?

2. Where does the epigram come from at the end of the book?

3. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?

4. How does the replacement try to get Gulliver to kill himself?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

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

3. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?

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

5. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?

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

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

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

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