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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following pieces does the protagonist first play on her violin?
(a) Wagner’s Traume.
(b) Mozart’s Sonata in e minor.
(c) Brahms’s Hungarian Dance 5 in g minor.
(d) Bach’s Chaconne in d minor.

2. With which of the following did the protagonist’s father work?
(a) Penn.
(b) Teller.
(c) Angel.
(d) Copperfield.

3. With which of the following does II begin?
(a) “How have you been?”
(b) “I thought perhaps you weren’t coming.”
(c) “How are you doing?”
(d) “Good morning.”

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

5. Which of the following, per the novel, is a type of quark?
(a) Snug.
(b) Quince.
(c) Flute.
(d) Bottom.

6. How many times prior to the novel had the protagonist been at Stella Maris?
(a) Once.
(b) Twice.
(c) Thrice.
(d) Four times.

7. What kind of particle, per the novel, behaves oddly with Stern-Gerlach magnets?
(a) Potassium.
(b) Sodium.
(c) Radium.
(d) Chlorine.

8. Which personality assessment had the protagonist sat for in the past?
(a) MMPI.
(b) NEO-PI.
(c) OCEAN.
(d) Myers-Briggs.

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

10. How old was the protagonist when she left Los Alamos?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What school does the protagonist note having attended?

2. What label does the protagonist apply to the figures in her hallucinations?

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

4. For whom, along with Grothendieck, was the IHES established?

5. Which of the following astronomers does the protagonist report admiring?

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