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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does II end?
(a) “Then in the morning we sat in the sand and drank our tea and watched the sun come up.”
(b) “Salvaged out of a bleak sea of the incomputable. Time’s up.”
(c) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(d) “Yes. I’m sorry.”

2. What profession did the protagonist’s father’s first wife hold?
(a) Pulmonologist.
(b) Proctologist.
(c) Cardiologist.
(d) Nephrologist.

3. At what facility had the protagonist’s mother worked?
(a) X-13.
(b) W-14.
(c) V-15.
(d) Y-12.

4. In what year was the protagonist born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1955.

5. To which of the following does the protagonist compare the interlocutor?
(a) Parmenides.
(b) Zeno.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following thinkers does the protagonist cite in discussing music?

2. Which of the following authors does the protagonist note having read?

3. Which personality assessment had the protagonist sat for in the past?

4. Which of the following invented the calutron?

5. Per the novel, how large a percentage of the population of mathematicians is Jewish?

(see the answer key)

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