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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 field of mathematics does the protagonist report having worked?
(a) Number theory.
(b) Combinatorics.
(c) Topology.
(d) Statistics.

2. How old is Grothendieck reported to be?
(a) 44.
(b) 43.
(c) 46.
(d) 45.

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

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

5. In which of the following thinkers was the protagonist’s father interested?
(a) Wittgenstein.
(b) Gödel.
(c) Turing.
(d) Hofstadter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which friend of the protagonist’s brother helped the protagonist forge a birth certificate?

2. Per the novel, how large a percentage of the population of mathematicians is Jewish?

3. How many times prior to the novel had the protagonist been at Stella Maris?

4. How old was the protagonist when she left Los Alamos?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

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

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

4. What vices does the protagonist deny having?

5. What is the two-slit experiment?

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

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

8. Why was the protagonist’s father away from home when she was born?

9. How does the interlocutor note patients surprise him?

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

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