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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What label does the interlocutor apply to the figures in the protagonist’s hallucinations?
(a) Eidolons.
(b) Familiars.
(c) Wraiths.
(d) Boggles.

3. In which city is Stella Maris?
(a) Black River Falls.
(b) Marshfield.
(c) Stevens Point.
(d) Tomah.

4. At what age does the protagonist report beginning to see hallucinations?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

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

6. On what holiday was the protagonist born?
(a) Canada Day.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) Boxing Day.
(d) Cinco de Mayo.

7. In which of the following thinkers was the protagonist’s father interested?
(a) Turing.
(b) Hofstadter.
(c) Wittgenstein.
(d) Gödel.

8. How many caultrons were in use?
(a) 1512.
(b) 1152.
(c) 1215.
(d) 2511.

9. Which of the following astronomers does the protagonist report admiring?
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Hypatia.
(c) Leavitt.
(d) Rubin.

10. How long does the interlocutor report having been divorced?
(a) Three years.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three months.
(d) Three weeks.

11. How many fire extinguishers is Los Alamos reported to have?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 600.
(c) 5.
(d) 70.

12. To which of the following does the novel compare Oppenheimer?
(a) Bohr.
(b) Dirac.
(c) Newton.
(d) Curie.

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

14. In what year was Stella Maris established?
(a) 1950.
(b) 2020.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1902.

15. What group did Grothendieck lead?
(a) Rainwater.
(b) Besse.
(c) Bourbaki.
(d) Peck.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does II end?

2. For how many years does the interlocutor report having been in practice?

3. Where does the protagonist’s mother place in a state beauty contest?

4. From where did the protagonist’s family move to Wartburg?

5. What epistemological position does the protagonist claim?

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