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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 happens when the narrator reaches out to touch Isobel’s neck and kill her?
2. Who is Nat?
3. What does the narrator take comfort in, after Gulliver beats him?
4. What is represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?
5. How does the narrator characterize sex with Isobel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?
2. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?
3. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?
4. How does the narrator finally break the hosts’ hold on him?
5. What happens when the narrator tells Isobel about having sex with Maggie?
6. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?
7. What effect does the host's “warning” have on the narrator (159)?
8. What effect does the evening out at Hamlet have on Isobel?
9. What do the narrator’s hosts say when he tells them that he needs more time?
10. How does the narrator convince Gulliver that he is telling the truth, when the replacement comes, impersonating Andrew Martin, to kill Gulliver?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of The Humans—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for The Humans? What is the ideal reader for The Humans likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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