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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 50-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To visit her mother.
(b) The supermarket.
(c) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(d) To teach a class at Cambridge.

2. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?
(a) It is beating quick and shallow.
(b) It is beating heavily.
(c) It does not feel like it is beating.
(d) It feels like it could explode.

3. Where does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin’s psychological problems came from?
(a) Original sin.
(b) A childhood illness.
(c) Lack of maternal love.
(d) A car accident.

4. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?
(a) When they are rich.
(b) When they are mathematicians.
(c) When they are painters.
(d) When they are musicians.

5. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?
(a) Distrust and suspicion.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Deep hostility.
(d) Mutual regard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

2. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?

3. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

4. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?

5. What causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?

(see the answer key)

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