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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ari compare prime numbers to?
2. What does the narrator hold onto, in the ambulance, when he lets go of everything else in the world?
3. Why does the narrator put his hand on the stove?
4. What is the narrator moved by at Daniel Russell’s funeral?
5. What does the narrator say when Isobel describes the early days of her courtship with Andrew Martin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when the narrator tells Isobel about having sex with Maggie?
2. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?
3. Why does the narrator put his hand on the AGA where the replacement’s hand had been burned?
4. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?
5. 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?
6. What explanation does the narrator offer the hosts, for his inability to perform the task he was sent to perform?
7. What brings the narrator back to Isobel and Gulliver?
8. What happens when the narrator sets Gulliver up to fight Theo “The Fucking Business” Clarke (181)?
9. What does the narrator learn from reading Isobel’s novel Wider than the Sky?
10. What is the secret Ari has been keeping for Andrew Martin?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of The Humans—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
What is the importance of money in The Humans? How would the book be different if the Martin family were a regular working family? What would the stressors be? How would a poorer family limit the book’s options?
Essay Topic 3
Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What can we tell about him, based on the choices he makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.
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