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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 animals does the protagonist assert knows what is fair?
(a) A fish.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bird.

2. Near what city does the protagonist note having wanted to live?
(a) Bucharest.
(b) Belgrade.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Bratislava.

3. What is the interlocutor’s daughter’s name?
(a) Rowena.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Renee.
(d) Ruth.

4. The captain of which sports team gave the protagonist her first sexual experience?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Football.
(d) Soccer.

5. Which mathematician does the protagonist reference in relation to ones and zeroes?
(a) Kronecker.
(b) Kummer.
(c) Cantor.
(d) Dedekind.

6. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to regard as a fellow student?
(a) Heidegger.
(b) Wittgenstein.
(c) Husserl.
(d) Plato.

7. In what Kansas city is the protagonist asked if she is a sex worker?
(a) Topeka.
(b) Wichita.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Kansas City.

8. Which of the following does the Kid note is featured in the Barnfowl Follies?
(a) The Hen from Red Glen.
(b) The Rooster from Worcester.
(c) The Chick from Passaic.
(d) The Cock from Montauk.

9. With whom did the protagonist work on violin harmonics?
(a) Ida Haendel.
(b) Batya MacAdam-Somer.
(c) Carleen Hutchins.
(d) Quincy Whitney.

10. With which of the following does the protagonist claim to have fallen in love?
(a) Wittgenstein.
(b) Plato.
(c) Husserl.
(d) Heidegger.

11. To which of the following does the protagonist compare herself?
(a) Floyd.
(b) Purvis.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Dillinger.

12. What show does the protagonist note the Kid discusses?
(a) The Fairview Review.
(b) Beverly’s Reveilles.
(c) The Raucous in Secaucus.
(d) The Gypsy from Poughkeepsie.

13. Which of the following does the protagonist note meeting at IHES?
(a) Deligne.
(b) Kazhdan.
(c) Mostow.
(d) Mumford.

14. With which of the following does IV end?
(a) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”
(b) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(c) “Salvaged out of a bleak sea of the incomputable. Time’s up.”
(d) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”

15. How many books a day, on average, does the protagonist report having read?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Against whom does the protagonist rail in describing her regard for her brother?

2. Which of the following books does the Kid reference?

3. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?

4. With which historian does the protagonist note conversing?

5. Which of the following does the protagonist describe as a “southernism” (149)?

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