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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 has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?
2. What does the narrator say is as universal as oxygen?
3. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
4. How does the narrator say Gulliver can accept him easiest?
5. Why does the narrator say he did not tell Gulliver to stop, when Gulliver started to beat him?
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. What happens when the narrator tells Isobel about having sex with Maggie?
3. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?
4. How does the narrator characterize human sex?
5. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?
6. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?
7. What do the narrator’s hosts say when he tells them that he needs more time?
8. What brings the narrator back to Isobel and Gulliver?
9. What contrast does the narrator draw between his home and Earth, after Isobel takes care of him?
10. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of The Humans—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
What parts of The Humans are believable? How does Matt Haig get you to suspend your disbelief for the things that are not believable? How willing were you, to suspend your disbelief?
Essay Topic 3
How would The Humans be different if it were set in the U.S.? In the Middle East? In Asia? In another country?
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