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

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

3. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?

4. What is the narrator honest about with Daniel Russell?

5. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the source of the humor Matt Haig employs in The Humans. What strategies does he use to get the reader laughing, and how does he vary his technique so that he defines a range of comic possibilities? What is his comic territory?

Essay Topic 2

Matt Haig seems to delight in describing people as aliens, even in allowing his narrator to all but confess that he is an alien. What is the effect of this language in the novel, and what does this technique show us about regular people and daily life?

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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