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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. Where do the narrator and Maggie go from his office?
2. Where does Winston Churchill tell the narrator he saw him earlier in the day?
3. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
4. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?
5. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?
2. How does the narrator characterize human sex?
3. What effect does the host's “warning” have on the narrator (159)?
4. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?
5. What does Gulliver tell the narrator he wants, now that all the facts have come out?
6. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?
7. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?
8. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?
9. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?
10. What is the secret Ari has been keeping for Andrew Martin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
What is the importance of money in The Humans? How would the book be different if the Martin family were a regular working family? What would the stressors be? How would a poorer family limit the book’s options?
Essay Topic 3
Write an evaluative review of The Humans. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
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