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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 is the best way to get someone on your side?
2. How does Daniel Russell greet the narrator?
3. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
4. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?
5. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to the narrator for the first time in his life when Isobel gives him a sandwich?
2. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with Newton, the family dog?
3. What is happening in the first scene the narrator describes in his narrative?
4. What does the narrator tell Newton?
5. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with human music?
6. What is the narrator’s rhetorical stance in The Humans?
7. How does the narrator explain the Riemann Hypothesis, and what does he say Andrew Martin discovered about it?
8. Who are the narrator’s chief suspects for people who might know about Andrew Martin’s discovery?
9. What is the narrator’s first experience of food and drink like?
10. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about the Martins’ household?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is The Humans most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
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