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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, pages 247-279.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Maggie say the narrator looks like?
(a) Ivan Drago.
(b) Rocky.
(c) Muhammad Ali.
(d) Jake LaMotta.

3. What is the narrator’s suggestion to Isobel, regarding Gulliver?
(a) Accept him.
(b) Send him to boarding school.
(c) Discipline him.
(d) Punish him.

4. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?
(a) Because they are listening.
(b) Because they have sent a replacement.
(c) Because he might be disciplined.
(d) Because the fate of the universe depends on his actions.

5. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?
(a) The language of silent moments.
(b) The language of eyebrows.
(c) The language of sighs.
(d) The language of frowns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kierkegaard say a man must pass through, to arrive at the perfection of everything human?

2. What does the narrator say is as universal as oxygen?

3. Why does the narrator say he did not tell Gulliver to stop, when Gulliver started to beat him?

4. Who sees the narrator in his native form after he saves Gulliver?

5. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

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