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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) El Paso.
(b) Knoxville.
(c) Juárez.
(d) Lake Tahoe.

2. What kind of particle, per the novel, behaves oddly with Stern-Gerlach magnets?
(a) Radium.
(b) Sodium.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) Potassium.

3. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?
(a) Bainbridge.
(b) Vashon.
(c) Bremerton.
(d) Poulsbo.

4. With which of the following does IV end?
(a) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”
(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) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”

5. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to be unable to escape?
(a) Wittgenstein.
(b) Heidegger.
(c) Plato.
(d) Husserl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the name of one of the protagonist’s hallucinations?

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

3. With whom did the protagonist work on violin harmonics?

4. To which of the following does the novel compare Oppenheimer?

5. What name does the protagonist give to the “presence beyond the gate” (106)?

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