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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 50-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it throb.
(b) It makes it move around.
(c) It makes it worse.
(d) It makes it disappear.

2. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?
(a) Fear of ridicule.
(b) Lust for power.
(c) Longing for glory.
(d) Need for approval.

3. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?
(a) A test.
(b) A tragedy.
(c) A betrayal.
(d) A trial.

4. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Random and bewildering.
(b) Chaotic and mystifying.
(c) Regular and scientific.
(d) Beautiful and clean.

5. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?
(a) Lips.
(b) Ears.
(c) Noses.
(d) Hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

2. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

3. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?

4. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

5. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

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