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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To which of the following does the protagonist compare the interlocutor?
(a) Milton.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Malory.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

3. With which of the following does II end?
(a) “Yes. I’m sorry.”
(b) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(c) “Salvaged out of a bleak sea of the incomputable. Time’s up.”
(d) “Then in the morning we sat in the sand and drank our tea and watched the sun come up.”

4. How old is the protagonist upon admission to Stella Maris?
(a) 35.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following does the interlocutor compare the Kid?

2. How many bathtubs is Los Alamos reported to have?

3. Which of the following mathematicians does the protagonist esteem?

4. With which of the following does I end?

5. On what holiday was the protagonist born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What attitude does the protagonist report her father had toward the use of atomic weapons in World War II?

2. What is implied to have occasioned the interlocutor’s divorce?

3. What compelled the protagonist’s family to move to Wartburg?

4. Why does the protagonist note having reacted badly to her childhood ophthalmologist?

5. What agreement is implied to exist between the protagonist and interlocutor as the main text of the novel begins?

6. How does the protagonist explain Grothendieck’s activism?

7. What opinion of Oppenheimer does the protagonist ascribe to her father?

8. What reason is given for Grothendieck leaving the IHES?

9. What vices does the protagonist deny having?

10. What attitude toward war does the protagonist report?

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