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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 human news ought to be called?

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

3. How does the narrator describe humans?

4. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?

5. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator ultimately get himself out of prison?

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

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

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

8. Why does the narrator say that Andrew Martin’s discovery needs to be erased?

9. What makes the narrator’s narrative so funny?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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