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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. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As alien to him.
(b) As familiar.
(c) As impossible to differentiate between.
(d) As beautiful.

2. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?
(a) Boldface.
(b) Quotation marks.
(c) Italics.
(d) A different font.

3. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it throb.
(b) It makes it move around.
(c) It makes it worse.
(d) It makes it disappear.

4. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Wired.
(b) Ladies Home Journal.
(c) Playboy.
(d) Cosmopolitan.

5. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?
(a) A plant.
(b) A crowd of people at a distance.
(c) The parking lot.
(d) A hillside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?

2. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

3. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

4. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?

5. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?

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