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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. Where does the narrator go at the end of the novel?
(a) Home to Isobel and Gulliver’s house.
(b) Home to Boston.
(c) Home to California.
(d) Home to Vonnadoria.

2. What does the narrator say the point of love is?
(a) To remind you what is important.
(b) To lighten your loads.
(c) To make pain bearable.
(d) To help you survive.

3. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?
(a) Their innocence will stain the Vonnadorians’ consciences.
(b) Their deaths are mathematically superfluous.
(c) He has a chance of truly seeing them.
(d) Their deaths will arouse suspicions.

4. How does the narrator try to blunt the replacement’s power?
(a) By cutting his left hand off.
(b) By taking him outside.
(c) By turning the TV on.
(d) By sitting him on the purple couch.

5. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?
(a) Live forever.
(b) Live in a single moment.
(c) Defy death.
(d) Defy the messiness of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the replacement say humans need to be limited in their technology?

2. Who recognizes the narrator first, when he returns to Cambridge?

3. How does the narrator demonstrate his powers to Gulliver?

4. Where does the narrator get a teaching job?

5. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What explanation does the narrator offer the hosts, for his inability to perform the task he was sent to perform?

3. What is the general tendency in the advice the narrator writes out for his son (and for the reader)?

4. How does the narrator convince Gulliver that he is telling the truth, when the replacement comes, impersonating Andrew Martin, to kill Gulliver?

5. What do the narrator’s hosts say when he tells them that he needs more time?

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

7. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?

8. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

9. What does Gulliver tell the narrator he wants, now that all the facts have come out?

10. How does the narrator characterize human sex?

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