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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. What label does the protagonist apply to the figures in her hallucinations?
(a) Eidolons.
(b) Wraiths.
(c) Boggles.
(d) Familiars.

2. With which of the following works does the protagonist engage?
(a) Grundlagen.
(b) Mathematica.
(c) Principia.
(d) Psychohistory.

3. With which philosopher does the protagonist associate the wish not to have been?
(a) Anaximander.
(b) Anaximenes.
(c) Heraclitus.
(d) Parmenides.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom, along with Grothendieck, was the IHES established?

2. In what state is Stella Maris?

3. What label does the interlocutor apply to the figures in the protagonist’s hallucinations?

4. Where was the protagonist’s father living just before his death?

5. Which degree does the interlocutor report holding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist argue that the Stanford-Binet test is racist?

2. Why does the protagonist consider music an exception to the rules governing other things?

3. Why had the protagonist hoped to get into the Coletta facility?

4. Per the novel, what is a calutron?

5. Why did the protagonist’s father hide his first marriage?

6. Why does the protagonist report having little contact with her father’s family?

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

8. In what capacity is the protagonist initially assumed to work at IHES?

9. What vices does the protagonist deny having?

10. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

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