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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 reason does the narrator provide for why humans love?
(a) Because they are thwarted.
(b) Because they are minor deities.
(c) Because they are mortal.
(d) Because they are overflowing.

2. What Talking Heads song does the narrator listen to over and over?
(a) This must be the place.
(b) Burning down the house.
(c) Wild, wild life.
(d) Once in a lifetime.

3. What does the narrator say has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?
(a) That me is dead.
(b) That me has been reprogrammed.
(c) That me has been converted.
(d) That be has been reborn.

4. Where does the epigram come from at the end of the book?
(a) Talking Heads.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Copernicus.
(d) Feynman.

5. What does Ari compare prime numbers to?
(a) Sirens.
(b) Centaurs.
(c) Cyclops.
(d) Harpies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Maggie’s gaze?

2. How does the narrator define human life?

3. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?

4. What does the narrator say opened in him as he left Andrew Martin’s house?

5. What does the narrator say the point of love is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator finally break the hosts’ hold on him?

2. How does the narrator find out about the presence of the replacement?

3. What does Ari tell the narrator about the possibility of aliens?

4. Why does the narrator put his hand on the AGA where the replacement’s hand had been burned?

5. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe being harassed on the street?

6. What contrast does the narrator draw between his home and Earth, after Isobel takes care of him?

7. How can the narrator tell that someone was in his house?

8. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?

9. What does the narrator learn from the fall he takes with Gulliver?

10. What gesture does Isobel Martin make at Daniel Russell’s funeral, and how does it affect the narrator?

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