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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 say happens when everything becomes alien?

2. What does the narrator tell Ari when Ari comes to visit him after he is attacked?

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

4. What does the narrator hold onto, in the ambulance, when he lets go of everything else in the world?

5. How does the narrator try to blunt the replacement’s power?

Short Essay Questions

1. What explanation does the narrator offer the hosts, for his inability to perform the task he was sent to perform?

2. How can the narrator tell that someone was in his house?

3. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?

4. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?

5. What does Ari tell the narrator about the possibility of aliens?

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

7. How does the narrator convince Gulliver that he is telling the truth, when the replacement comes, impersonating Andrew Martin, to kill Gulliver?

8. What effect does the host's “warning” have on the narrator (159)?

9. What happens when the narrator tells Isobel about having sex with Maggie?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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