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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 is the narrator’s response when he and Gulliver see the boy who bullied Gulliver?
(a) He turns around so the boy doesn’t see them.
(b) He protects Gulliver from the boy.
(c) He challenges the boy to fight.
(d) He hypnotizes the boy and adjusts his mind.

2. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?
(a) Her nose.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her soft voice.
(d) Her smell.

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

4. What does Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?
(a) Being powerless.
(b) Shoes too small.
(c) A black eye.
(d) Being broke.

5. Who recognizes the narrator first, when he returns to Cambridge?
(a) Newton.
(b) Winston Churchill.
(c) Gulliver.
(d) Isobel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he did not tell Gulliver to stop, when Gulliver started to beat him?

2. What does the narrator say happens after he fails to kill Isobel?

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

4. What is the facet of prime numbers that makes them consoling to the narrator?

5. What is life like for the narrator after he loses his gifts?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator characterize human sex?

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

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

5. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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