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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did the protagonist’s family move to Wartburg?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1953.

3. How old does the interlocutor report being?
(a) 43.
(b) 46.
(c) 37.
(d) 40.

4. Which friend of the protagonist’s brother helped the protagonist forge a birth certificate?
(a) John Sheddan.
(b) Luke Shelton.
(c) Mark Shadow.
(d) Matthew Stedding.

5. With which of the following thinkers’ ideas does the protagonist grapple?
(a) Freire.
(b) Foucault.
(c) Frege.
(d) Fosworth.

6. What procedure does the protagonist note had been performed on Rosemary Kennedy?
(a) Tracheotomy.
(b) Appendectomy.
(c) Amygdalotomy.
(d) Lobotomy.

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

8. With which of the following works does the protagonist engage?
(a) Psychohistory.
(b) Grundlagen.
(c) Mathematica.
(d) Principia.

9. How old is the protagonist’s brother when their mother dies?
(a) 17.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 19.

10. What eye condition does the protagonist report having had?
(a) Glaucoma.
(b) Amblyopia.
(c) Strabismus.
(d) Cataracts.

11. How old was the protagonist when her father died?
(a) 16.
(b) 17.
(c) 18.
(d) 15.

12. Which of the following thinkers does the protagonist cite in discussing music?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Schopenhauer.
(c) Kant.
(d) Nietzsche.

13. To which of the following tests had the protagonist been subjected?
(a) Grackle’s.
(b) Raven’s.
(c) Crow’s.
(d) Blackbird’s.

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

15. To which of the following does the protagonist compare the interlocutor?
(a) Milton.
(b) Malory.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Chaucer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case number is assigned to the protagonist?

2. How long after the protagonist’s mother died did her father die?

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

4. What name did the Kid believe Dirac had?

5. Which country does the protagonist leave to arrive at Stella Maris?

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