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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?

2. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?

3. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?

4. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?

5. What does the narrator learn from questioning Gulliver?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with human music?

2. What happens in the narrator’s interrogation by police?

3. What does the narrator learn about mathematicians that undermines his core beliefs about human beings?

4. What does the narrator tell Newton?

5. What is the narrator’s relationship with pain like?

6. Who are the narrator’s chief suspects for people who might know about Andrew Martin’s discovery?

7. How does the narrator characterize life in the world he comes from?

8. What happens to the narrator for the first time in his life when Isobel gives him a sandwich?

9. How is the narrator ultimately captured by the police?

10. What is happening in the first scene the narrator describes in his narrative?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What parts of The Humans are believable? How does Matt Haig get you to suspend your disbelief for the things that are not believable? How willing were you, to suspend your disbelief?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What can we tell about him, based on the choices he makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

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