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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 offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?
2. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?
3. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?
4. What does Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?
5. Why does the narrator say he did not tell Gulliver to stop, when Gulliver started to beat him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What effect does the evening out at Hamlet have on Isobel?
2. What do the narrator’s hosts say when he tells them that he needs more time?
3. Why does the narrator put his hand on the AGA where the replacement’s hand had been burned?
4. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?
5. How does the narrator characterize human sex?
6. How does the narrator convince Gulliver that he is telling the truth, when the replacement comes, impersonating Andrew Martin, to kill Gulliver?
7. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?
8. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?
9. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?
10. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How would The Humans be different if it were set in the U.S.? In the Middle East? In Asia? In another country?
Essay Topic 2
What is the meaning of life, according the Vonnadorian narrator of The Humans? How does he arrive at this definition?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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