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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 he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

2. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?

3. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?

4. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?

5. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Gulliver, his son?

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

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

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

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

9. What is the narrator’s first experience of food and drink like?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the ending of The Humans. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 2

What is the meaning of life, according the Vonnadorian narrator of The Humans? How does he arrive at this definition?

Essay Topic 3

What is the importance of money in The Humans? How would the book be different if the Martin family were a regular working family? What would the stressors be? How would a poorer family limit the book’s options?

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