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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 the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?

2. What is the narrator’s suggestion to Isobel, regarding Gulliver?

3. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?

4. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?

5. How does the replacement try to get Gulliver to kill himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize sex with Maggie?

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

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

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

5. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

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

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

8. What is the secret Ari has been keeping for Andrew Martin?

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

10. How does the narrator dispose of the replacement’s body?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the meaning of life, according the Vonnadorian narrator of The Humans? How does he arrive at this definition?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of The Humans. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Who in today’s world holds the view that humans are greedy and violent? What policies do the parties who believe this propose? Who in today’s world believes that humans are flawed but basically good? What policies do the parties who believe this propose? How does The Humans answer this divergence of opinions?

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