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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What label does the protagonist apply to the figures in her hallucinations?
(a) Boggles.
(b) Familiars.
(c) Eidolons.
(d) Wraiths.

2. In what state is Stella Maris?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Minnesota.

3. Where was the protagonist’s father living just before his death?
(a) Knoxville.
(b) Lake Tahoe.
(c) Juárez.
(d) El Paso.

4. Which of the following computer scientists does the protagonist claim to admire?
(a) Hopper.
(b) Allen.
(c) Lovelace.
(d) Turing.

5. With which of the following mathematics projects is the protagonist concerned?
(a) Gowers.
(b) De Wordes.
(c) Langlands.
(d) Hoccleves.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what kind of athlete does the protagonist compare the Kid?

2. What kind of particle, per the novel, behaves oddly with Stern-Gerlach magnets?

3. With which of the following thinkers’ ideas does the protagonist grapple?

4. In which of the following thinkers was the protagonist’s father interested?

5. In what year was the protagonist born?

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