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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. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?
2. Where does the narrator get a teaching job?
3. How does Maggie characterize the experience of being human?
4. How does the narrator try to blunt the replacement’s power?
5. Where does the epigram come from at the end of the book?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What contrast does the narrator draw between his home and Earth, after Isobel takes care of him?
3. How does the narrator finally break the hosts’ hold on him?
4. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?
5. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?
6. What explanation does the narrator offer the hosts, for his inability to perform the task he was sent to perform?
7. How does Maggie characterize what it means to be human?
8. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?
9. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?
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
Which is more important in The Humans, math or poetry? Are they opposed to each other? Are they complementary? How does the book define the relation between math and poetry?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Identify the source of the humor Matt Haig employs in The Humans. What strategies does he use to get the reader laughing, and how does he vary his technique so that he defines a range of comic possibilities? What is his comic territory?
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