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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following invented the calutron?
(a) Ellington.
(b) Miller.
(c) Goodman.
(d) Lawrence.

4. Per the novel, how large a percentage of the general population is Jewish?
(a) 80.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 20.

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

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

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

8. Approximately how much does the Kid weigh?
(a) 100 pounds.
(b) 50 pounds.
(c) 50 stone.
(d) 50 kilograms.

9. Of what background is the interlocutor’s spouse?
(a) Romanian.
(b) German.
(c) Polish.
(d) Italian.

10. What name did the Kid believe Dirac had?
(a) Jennifer.
(b) Karen.
(c) Shamela.
(d) Pamela.

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

12. For how much does the protagonist purchase her violin?
(a) $300,000.
(b) $160,000.
(c) $230,000.
(d) $370,000.

13. With which of the following does I end?
(a) “Yes. I’m sorry.”
(b) “Then in the morning we sat in the sand and drank our tea and watched the sun come up.”
(c) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(d) “Oh. Yes. Of course.”

14. To what kind of athlete does the protagonist compare the Kid?
(a) Skier.
(b) Archer.
(c) Iceskater.
(d) Javelineer.

15. What does the protagonist note was the average age of the Manhattan Project scientists?
(a) 38.
(b) 26.
(c) 30.
(d) 34.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is the Kid?

2. Which of the following computer scientists does the protagonist claim to admire?

3. What profession did the protagonist’s father’s first wife hold?

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

5. What group did Grothendieck lead?

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