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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 represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?

2. Why does Ari say that the idea of aliens can only be enjoyed as fiction?

3. How does the narrator characterize human love?

4. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?

5. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Maggie characterize what it means to be human?

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

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

4. What effect does the evening out at Hamlet have on Isobel?

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

6. How does the narrator get Gulliver’s buy-in for his authority and power?

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

8. What does Gulliver tell the narrator he wants, now that all the facts have come out?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What part of life on Earth corresponds most closely to life on the narrator’s home planet? Is Vonnadoria portrayed as a utopia or dystopia?

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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