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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. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to regard as a fellow student?
(a) Husserl.
(b) Plato.
(c) Wittgenstein.
(d) Heidegger.

2. What thinker does the protagonist note is necessary to the discussion of numbers?
(a) Frege.
(b) Fosworth.
(c) Freire.
(d) Foucault.

3. How old was the protagonist when she left home for college?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 17.

4. How far from ground zero at a nuclear test site had the protagonist’s father been?
(a) 6 miles.
(b) 6 kilometers.
(c) 10 kilometers.
(d) 10 miles.

5. What is the name of the interlocutor’s wife?
(a) Edith.
(b) Edie.
(c) Edna.
(d) Edwina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does the protagonist suggest she wear to discuss dreams?

2. What scholar of quantum mechanics does the protagonist note thinking about?

3. With which historian does the protagonist note conversing?

4. How many books does the protagonist estimate having read in her lifetime?

5. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist explain her father’s recourse to alternative medicines?

2. Per the novel, what is a prestige?

3. Why does the protagonist indicate people prefer the idea of fate to the idea of chance?

4. Why, per the protagonist, do falling climbers feel peace?

5. What “old saw in racing” does the protagonist report (165-66)?

6. What does the interlocutor posit should be the defining image of the age in which he lives?

7. How does the interlocutor describe his daughter?

8. What does the protagonist note is commonly the most interesting thing about philosophers?

9. What does the protagonist cite as her chief gripe with mental health professionals?

10. Why does the protagonist distrust her doctoral advisor?

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