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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 color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?

2. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?

3. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?

4. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

5. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with Newton, the family dog?

2. Who does the narrator meet in the cafeteria in the jail?

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

4. What is the importance of prime numbers for the narrator?

5. What does the narrator tell Daniel Russell before he kills him?

6. What happens in the narrator’s interview with Andrew Martin’s wife Isobel?

7. What happens when the narrator calls Andrew Martin’s mother?

8. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?

9. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about the Martins’ household?

10. How does Haig characterize the marriage between Andrew and Isobel Martin?

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

Write an evaluative review of The Humans. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

How would The Humans be different if it were set in the U.S.? In the Middle East? In Asia? In another country?

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