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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. From whom does the protagonist note having stolen cigarettes?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.
2. Which of the following does the protagonist describe as a “southernism” (149)?
(a) Codswallop.
(b) Codlock.
(c) Larrupin’.
(d) Hitherto.
3. Which of the following do the interlocutor and his wife do?
(a) Play tennis.
(b) Play golf.
(c) Go rowing.
(d) Go bowling.
4. Where does the protagonist note Jung had had a comatose patient?
(a) Arkham.
(b) Clinic les Alpes.
(c) Burghölzli.
(d) Burghölzli.
5. What is the title of the chapter in Spengler that attracts the protagonist’s attention?
(a) “The Meaning of Numbers.”
(b) “Rise of the South.”
(c) “Enumerating Infinity.”
(d) “The Idea of Zero.”
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to be unable to escape?
2. To what city does the protagonist note moving?
3. Which of the following books does the Kid reference?
4. How long were the interlocutor and his wife divorced?
5. What scholar of quantum mechanics does the protagonist note thinking about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the protagonist note is commonly the most interesting thing about philosophers?
2. What does the protagonist cite as her chief gripe with mental health professionals?
3. What doubt about the protagonist does the interlocutor voice?
4. What “old saw in racing” does the protagonist report (165-66)?
5. Per the novel, what is a prestige?
6. Why does the protagonist assert she would not have been a good counselor?
7. What does the interlocutor posit should be the defining image of the age in which he lives?
8. What is the subject of the paper the protagonist sent Grothendieck in advance of arriving at IHES (136)?
9. Why does the protagonist object to being put on antipsychotic medication?
10. Why does the protagonist note she was less disturbed at their father’s death than her brother was?
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