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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator attribute Newton’s newfound liveliness to?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Long walks.
(c) Lots of sleep.
(d) Companionship.

2. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?
(a) He protests.
(b) He laments.
(c) He groans.
(d) He accuses.

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

4. What does the narrator say human news is about?
(a) War.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Humans.

5. What is the narrator’s favorite primer number?
(a) 97.
(b) 7.
(c) 617.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?

4. What does the narrator say is the color of home?

5. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the narrator’s chief suspects for people who might know about Andrew Martin’s discovery?

2. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with human music?

3. What happens in the narrator’s interrogation by police?

4. What makes the narrator’s narrative so funny?

5. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with his hosts, now that he is getting accustomed to Andrew Martin’s life?

6. How does Andrew Martin characterize his discovery in the introduction the narrator reads?

7. What happens to the narrator for the first time in his life when Isobel gives him a sandwich?

8. What is the narrator’s rhetorical stance in The Humans?

9. What happens when the narrator calls Andrew Martin’s mother?

10. Who does the narrator meet in the cafeteria in the jail?

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