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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What thinker does the protagonist note is necessary to the discussion of numbers?
(a) Frege.
(b) Freire.
(c) Foucault.
(d) Fosworth.

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

3. Which of the following do the interlocutor and his wife do?
(a) Play tennis.
(b) Play golf.
(c) Go rowing.
(d) Go bowling.

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

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

6. With which of the following does IV end?
(a) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(b) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”
(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.”

7. How old does the protagonist report being when she learned to read?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

8. In what year does the protagonist’s family arrive at Ellis Island?
(a) 1838.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1858.

9. How far from ground zero at a nuclear test site had the protagonist’s father been?
(a) 6 kilometers.
(b) 10 miles.
(c) 10 kilometers.
(d) 6 miles.

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

11. With which of the following does IV begin?
(a) “I thought perhaps you weren’t coming.”
(b) “How have you been?”
(c) “Hi. I’m Dr Cohen.”
(d) “Good morning.”

12. From whom does the protagonist note having stolen cigarettes?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her brother.

13. What scientist does the protagonist note was troubled by the unconscious?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Nuñez.
(d) Lamarck.

14. With which of the following does VI end?
(a) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”
(b) “Yes. I’m sorry.”
(c) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”
(d) “Oh. Yes. Of course.”

15. Which of the following does the protagonist note as a candidate for a root theory of mathematics?
(a) Euclid’s fifth postulate.
(b) Seldon’s psychohistory equations.
(c) Newton’s third principle.
(d) Hilbert’s second thesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what Kansas city is the protagonist asked if she is a sex worker?

2. In what part of the brain does the protagonist posit the unconscious resides?

3. How long have the interlocutor and his wife been married?

4. How old does the protagonist note being when she first attempted smoking?

5. Which descriptor does the protagonist posit has been applied to her?

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