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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 is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?

2. What does the narrator learn from questioning Gulliver?

3. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

4. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?

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

5. How does Andrew Martin characterize his discovery in the introduction the narrator reads?

6. What is the narrator’s rhetorical stance in The Humans?

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

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

9. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who in today’s world holds the view that humans are greedy and violent? What policies do the parties who believe this propose? Who in today’s world believes that humans are flawed but basically good? What policies do the parties who believe this propose? How does The Humans answer this divergence of opinions?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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