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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 must be a chief cause of sexual relationships on earth?
(a) The shape of human bodies.
(b) The strength of the planet’s magnetic field.
(c) The dark night sky.
(d) The thickness of the atmosphere.

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

3. What does the narrator say opened in him as he left Andrew Martin’s house?
(a) A blind spot.
(b) The eye of God.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A blank spot.

4. Why does the replacement say humans need to be limited in their technology?
(a) If they ever get off the planet, they will not be friendly.
(b) If they understand the power of mathematics, they will use it to enrich themselves.
(c) If they learn how to communicate, they will sow divisions in Vonnadorian society.
(d) If they see the splendor of mathematics, they will lose their minds.

5. How does the narrator try to get Gulliver to kill himself?
(a) By falling down the stairs.
(b) By taking pills.
(c) By slitting his wrists.
(d) By hanging himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the narrator reaches out to touch Isobel’s neck and kill her?

2. How does the narrator demonstrate his powers to Gulliver?

3. What does Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?

4. What does the narrator say he always needed, instead of emotions?

5. What does the narrator say has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What effect does the evening out at Hamlet have on Isobel?

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

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

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

6. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

7. What contrast does the narrator draw between his home and Earth, after Isobel takes care of him?

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

9. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

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

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