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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Claire confused about Catherine's relationship to Hal?
(a) Because Hal and Robert are friends, but not Hal and Catherine.
(b) Because Hal and Catherine were engaged to be married.
(c) Because prior to this incident, she knows Catherine and Hal were the best of friends.
(d) Because she does not know if they were partying together, if he was an intruder, or if he only exists in Catherine's mind.

2. When is Claire's wedding, and where?
(a) January, in New York City.
(b) November, in Miami.
(c) June, in Chicago.
(d) August, in Boston.

3. How old is Catherine turning?
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Twenty-five.

4. What is Hal carrying when he enters?
(a) A backpack and a folded jacket.
(b) A briefcase and a parka.
(c) A bouquet of flowers and a card.
(d) A laptop computer.

5. Who apologizes to whom about the events from the night before? (i.e., the fight, the 9-1-1 call, and the attempted theft)?
(a) Catherine apologizes to Hal--she should not have called the police.
(b) No one apologizes--they are still in a fight.
(c) They apologize to each other--they both handled the situation poorly.
(d) Hal apologizes to Catherine--he should not have tried to take the notebook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hal find the notebook?

2. Why is Hal at the house in Scene 1?

3. What does Hal do after Catherine quotes Gauss' letter to Sophie Germain?

4. What does Claire fear about Catherine?

5. At the beginning of the scene, what does Hal bring for Catherine to drink?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Sophie Germain?

2. When did Hal and Catherine first meet?

3. What does Robert reveal about Catherine's state of mind in the first scene?

4. Why does Claire want Catherine to come to New York?

5. What does Catherine give to Hal that morning? Where has Catherine been keeping the object ?

6. Why does Hal think his papers get turned down for publication?

7. What does Claire plan to do with the house?

8. Robert was a graphomaniac. What does that mean?

9. How does Hal describe the mathematicians at his conferences?

10. Why does Catherine demand to see Hal's backpack? Does she find anything?

(see the answer keys)

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