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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 25-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?
(a) To create a sense of inferiority in the reader.
(b) To generate envy in poorer humans.
(c) To supplement ethnographic research about how other people live.
(d) To provide political updates.

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

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

4. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?
(a) A betrayal.
(b) A tragedy.
(c) A trial.
(d) A test.

5. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Pain.
(b) Relief.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?

2. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

3. What does the narrator say this book is about?

4. How does the narrator describe humans?

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

(see the answer key)

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