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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 is as universal as oxygen?

2. Where does the narrator get a teaching job?

3. How does Ari characterize the duration of human history?

4. What does Isobel’s alter ego in her novel say will happen if she solves the mystery of her marriage?

5. What does the narrator say he always needed, instead of emotions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?

2. Why does the narrator put his hand on the AGA where the replacement’s hand had been burned?

3. What brings the narrator back to Isobel and Gulliver?

4. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?

5. What explanation does the narrator offer the hosts, for his inability to perform the task he was sent to perform?

6. How does the narrator defuse the humor and anxiety in his classroom, when he returns to teaching for the first time after being arrested for being naked?

7. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?

8. What does the narrator learn from the fall he takes with Gulliver?

9. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?

10. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

What parts of The Humans are believable? How does Matt Haig get you to suspend your disbelief for the things that are not believable? How willing were you, to suspend your disbelief?

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