The Strange Reality of a Readers' Guide

I just finished reading the Readers' Guide questions that someone else wrote for my forthcoming novel. This someone was someone hired by my publisher for this task. I don't know her (it had to be a her), don't know anything about her, and read the questions she wrote about my book with my mouth agape -- not because they were good or bad, wrong or right, but simply because this is the first regular reader in the universe to have read my book. My agent doesn't count as regular in this context, ...