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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 consequence for the narrator, of bringing Gulliver back to life?
2. How does the replacement try to get Gulliver to kill himself?
3. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about Isobel?
4. What happens when the narrator reaches out to touch Isobel’s neck and kill her?
5. What does the narrator tell Ari when Ari comes to visit him after he is attacked?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?
2. 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?
3. What is the secret Ari has been keeping for Andrew Martin?
4. What does Ari tell the narrator about the possibility of aliens?
5. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?
6. Why does the narrator put his hand on the AGA where the replacement’s hand had been burned?
7. What effect does the host's “warning” have on the narrator (159)?
8. What brings the narrator back to Isobel and Gulliver?
9. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?
10. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?
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 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 3
Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What can we tell about him, based on the choices he makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.
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