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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the narrator’s audience?
(a) Humans.
(b) Vonnadorians.
(c) Venusians.
(d) Isobel and Gulliver Martin.

2. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him a satisfying blindness.
(b) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.
(c) It gives him nostalgia for home.
(d) It gives him the pleasure of counting.

3. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.
(b) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.
(c) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(d) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.

4. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?
(a) He hits his head in the shower.
(b) He stubs his toe on a door frame.
(c) He cuts his finger in the kitchen.
(d) He bangs his shin on a coffee table.

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

6. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?
(a) Russell’s wife’s panic.
(b) Daniel Russell’s stoicism.
(c) Daniel Russell’s fear.
(d) Russell’s wife’s concern.

7. How does the narrator characterize dogs?
(a) Needy.
(b) Judicious.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Loving.

8. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?
(a) Why do you think I care?
(b) Who’s going to stop me?
(c) How will you live without me?
(d) What’s in it for you?

9. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Love.
(c) Disbelief.
(d) Fear.

10. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(b) Humans revising their instincts.
(c) Humans suppressing their instincts.
(d) Humans acting on their instincts.

11. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) German shepherd.
(b) Basset hound.
(c) Springer spaniel.
(d) Pekinese.

12. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) The air he is breathing.
(b) The memory of Russell’s dying face.
(c) The chicken Isobel cooked him.
(d) Nostalgia for home.

13. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?
(a) He is exhausted for the energy of killing Russell.
(b) He feels pain in his shoulder.
(c) He briefly blacks out.
(d) His face becomes his own.

14. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?
(a) That they are divine.
(b) That they control their lives.
(c) That they are alone.
(d) That they are advanced.

15. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He wags his tail and licks him.
(b) He growls in his sleep.
(c) He does not notice him.
(d) He bites him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?

2. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?

3. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?

4. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

5. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

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