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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long have the interlocutor and his wife been married?
(a) 17 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 14 years.
(d) 11 years.

2. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?
(a) Poulsbo.
(b) Vashon.
(c) Bremerton.
(d) Bainbridge.

3. In what part of the brain does the protagonist posit the unconscious resides?
(a) Thalamus.
(b) Locus ceruleus.
(c) Corpus callosum.
(d) Amygdala.

4. How many books does the protagonist estimate having read in her lifetime?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 100.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. What color does the protagonist suggest she wear to discuss dreams?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

6. Which of the following made the protagonist’s violin?
(a) Guarneri.
(b) Da Salo.
(c) Amati.
(d) Stradivari.

7. Which of the following books does the Kid reference?
(a) The Damp and the Angry.
(b) Juicy Mangoes.
(c) The Pit and the Pendulum.
(d) The Young and the Restless.

8. What is the title of the chapter in Spengler that attracts the protagonist’s attention?
(a) “Enumerating Infinity.”
(b) “Rise of the South.”
(c) “The Idea of Zero.”
(d) “The Meaning of Numbers.”

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

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

11. How old does the protagonist report being when she realized other people genuinely forget things?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

12. Which of the following does the protagonist describe as a “southernism” (149)?
(a) Codlock.
(b) Codswallop.
(c) Larrupin’.
(d) Hitherto.

13. What mathematician does the protagonist note had been working on gauge theory?
(a) Carhartt.
(b) Lee.
(c) Agolde.
(d) Levi.

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

15. From what hotel does the protagonist’s brother call her with news about their father?
(a) Stanton.
(b) Gardner.
(c) Gateway.
(d) Indigo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to regard as a fellow student?

3. Which of the following had placed the protagonist on suicide watch?

4. To which of the following does the protagonist compare Spengler?

5. In what situation does the protagonist note having been in restraints?

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