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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. How does the narrator know that someone has been in the house while he and Isobel slept?
(a) He hears footsteps.
(b) There are fresh footprints in the kitchen.
(c) Newton barks at them.
(d) Isobel’s computer is open.

2. How long does Isobel say it has been, since she and her husband talked as openly as they talk after Hamlet?
(a) Months.
(b) Decades.
(c) Years.
(d) They have never talked so openly.

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

4. Why does the narrator say he did not tell Gulliver to stop, when Gulliver started to beat him?
(a) He wanted to make it look like self-defense.
(b) He wanted to see what human violence was like.
(c) He was willing to be killed rather than let Isobel and Gulliver be killed.
(d) He could not breathe with Gulliver’s hand on his throat.

5. What is Ari’s response to the thing the narrator tells him?
(a) He says that he believes him.
(b) He says that he is fucked, then.
(c) He says that he will have other experiences.
(d) He says that he wants to go there with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s response when he and Gulliver see the boy who bullied Gulliver?

2. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?

3. How does the narrator characterize sex with Isobel?

4. What is life like for the narrator after he loses his gifts?

5. How does the narrator say he became human?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator defuse the humor and anxiety in his classroom, when he returns to teaching for the first time after being arrested for being naked?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Maggie characterize what it means to be human?

10. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

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