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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 what year did the protagonist’s family move to Wartburg?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1943.

2. What case number is assigned to the protagonist?
(a) 72-118.
(b) TK-421.
(c) 50-830.
(d) BR-549.

3. How many caultrons were in use?
(a) 1215.
(b) 1152.
(c) 1512.
(d) 2511.

4. Whom does the protagonist ask if patients will surprise?
(a) Fleiss.
(b) Stekel.
(c) Krafft-Ebing.
(d) Hirschfeld.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To which of the following does the protagonist compare the interlocutor?

3. What does the protagonist note was the average age of the Manhattan Project scientists?

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

5. In which city does the interlocutor teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What work did the protagonist’s father do after the use of atomic weapons in World War II?

2. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

3. What attitude toward war does the protagonist report?

4. How does the interlocutor note patients surprise him?

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

6. Why does the protagonist report not investing her inheritance?

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

8. What is the significance of the Fields Medal?

9. What is the two-slit experiment?

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

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