2. Which chimp female follows the northern male chimps away after they attack her group?
(a) Honey.
(b) Muffin.
(c) Rita-Lu.
(d) Rita-Mae.

3. Who writes Hope a note from a psychiatric hospital?
(a) John.
(b) Clovis.
(c) Mallabar.
(d) Usman.

4. According to Hope, what kind of events or situations are reversible?
(a) Cup catastrophes.
(b) Cusp catastrophes.
(c) Topological.
(d) Antilogical.

5. Who commits suicide in the book?
(a) Hope.
(b) Mr. Jeb.
(c) John.
(d) Mallabar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character requests electro-shock therapy?

2. Which important character witnesses the truth in Hope's theory.

3. According to Hope, what is the study of abrupt change?

4. According to Hope, what are unchanging features in life called?

5. What did Usman complain about often?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hope's discovery among the chimps show her that she and John are not so different? What is it that they have in common?

2. What is Hope's relationship with Mallabar at the end of the novel?

3. According to Hope, how is life like calculus?

4. How does Mallabar react to the attack that he witnesses?

5. What are some examples of catastrophes that Hope gives in discussing her catastrophe theory? Label each example with the type of catastrophe it represents.

6. What, briefly, is the mathematical set John dreams of creating and where is he while he is tries to develop it?

7. What does Hope ask for to end the fighting among the chimps? What becomes of her request?

8. In the end, what lesson does Hope say she's learned about life?

9. What does Hope learn about Eugene and Ian on her way back to Grosso Arvore after her kidnapping?

10. Where does Hope live at the end of the novel? Describe her home.

(see the answer keys)

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