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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Grothendieck’s father?
(a) Cousteau.
(b) Grothendieck.
(c) Schapiro.
(d) Ramirez.

2. With which philosopher does the protagonist associate the wish not to have been?
(a) Heraclitus.
(b) Parmenides.
(c) Anaximander.
(d) Anaximenes.

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

4. The protagonist asks for equipment for what table game?
(a) Checkers.
(b) D&D.
(c) Pingpong.
(d) Poker.

5. What thinker does the protagonist note is necessary to the discussion of numbers?
(a) Foucault.
(b) Frege.
(c) Freire.
(d) Fosworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following pieces does the protagonist first play on her violin?

2. What label does the interlocutor apply to the figures in the protagonist’s hallucinations?

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

4. How old is the protagonist upon admission to Stella Maris?

5. What is the name of the protagonist’s uncle?

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