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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. In which state does the protagonist have paternal relatives?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Vermont.
(c) New Hampshire.
(d) Connecticut.

2. For whom, along with Grothendieck, was the IHES established?
(a) Motchane.
(b) Oppenheimer.
(c) Dieudonné.
(d) Poincaré.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What eye condition does the protagonist report having had?

2. Which personality assessment had the protagonist sat for in the past?

3. The novel explains the term “orts” as akin to which of the following?

4. With which of the following does I end?

5. Through what agency does the protagonist purchase a violin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

2. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

3. How does the protagonist know that her fellow inpatients know she does not belong among them?

4. What vices does the protagonist deny having?

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

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

7. How does the interlocutor note patients surprise him?

8. Why does the interlocutor remark that it is an oddity to claim Oppenheimer was stupid?

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

10. Per the novel, what is a calutron?

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