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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 Gulliver tell the narrator about Isobel?

2. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?

3. What does the Vonnadorians’ understanding of prime numbers allow them to do?

4. What does the narrator tell Ari when Ari comes to visit him after he is attacked?

5. How far away would the orange need to be, in the narrator's illustration, to represent how far away Vonnadoria would be?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator get Gulliver’s buy-in for his authority and power?

3. What happens to prevent the narrator killing Gulliver?

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

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

6. 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?

7. What is Ari’s reaction when the narrator tells him the truth of his origins?

8. How does the narrator characterize human sex?

9. Why does the narrator say he did not try to patch things up with Isobel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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

Evaluate the ending of The Humans. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

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