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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. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?
2. What does the narrator hold onto, in the ambulance, when he lets go of everything else in the world?
3. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?
4. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
5. Who sees the narrator in his native form after he saves Gulliver?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?
2. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?
3. How does Maggie characterize what it means to be human?
4. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?
5. What brings the narrator back to Isobel and Gulliver?
6. What is the secret Ari has been keeping for Andrew Martin?
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 contrast does the narrator draw between his home and Earth, after Isobel takes care of him?
9. What does the narrator learn from the fall he takes with Gulliver?
10. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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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