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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which of the following does the protagonist’s father die?
(a) Lake Tahoe.
(b) Juárez.
(c) El Paso.
(d) Knoxville.

2. With which of the following does IV end?
(a) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(b) “Salvaged out of a bleak sea of the incomputable. Time’s up.”
(c) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”
(d) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”

3. Which of the following does the protagonist note as a candidate for a root theory of mathematics?
(a) Seldon’s psychohistory equations.
(b) Euclid’s fifth postulate.
(c) Hilbert’s second thesis.
(d) Newton’s third principle.

4. Which of the following tracts does the protagonist note having read?
(a) Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.
(b) Alciprhon.
(c) Miscellanea Mathematica.
(d) A New Theory of Vision.

5. Which of the following pieces does the protagonist first play on her violin?
(a) Wagner’s Traume.
(b) Brahms’s Hungarian Dance 5 in g minor.
(c) Bach’s Chaconne in d minor.
(d) Mozart’s Sonata in e minor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long were the interlocutor and his wife divorced?

2. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?

3. Whom does the protagonist ask if patients will surprise?

4. Of what religion is the interlocutor’s spouse?

5. Which of the following, per the novel, is a type of quark?

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