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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) Shakespeare.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Milton.
(d) Malory.

2. Which of the following pieces does the protagonist first play on her violin?
(a) Mozart’s Sonata in e minor.
(b) Wagner’s Traume.
(c) Bach’s Chaconne in d minor.
(d) Brahms’s Hungarian Dance 5 in g minor.

3. What does the protagonist note was the average age of the Manhattan Project scientists?
(a) 30.
(b) 34.
(c) 38.
(d) 26.

4. Which of the following, per the novel, is a type of quark?
(a) Flute.
(b) Bottom.
(c) Snug.
(d) Quince.

5. Which friend of the protagonist’s brother helped the protagonist forge a birth certificate?
(a) Matthew Stedding.
(b) Luke Shelton.
(c) John Sheddan.
(d) Mark Shadow.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does II begin?

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

3. With which of the following did the protagonist’s father work?

4. How long do the protagonist and interlocutor have together after the break in II?

5. From what catalog does the protagonist buy a violin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Per the novel, what is a calutron?

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

3. How is the protagonist described upon admission to Stella Maris?

4. How does the protagonist explain her affinity for mental health inpatients?

5. What vice does the protagonist admit to having?

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

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

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

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

10. What attitude toward war does the protagonist report?

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