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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 which city did the protagonist stop on her road-trip?
(a) Helena.
(b) Boise.
(c) Olympia.
(d) Salem.
2. Which of the following does the protagonist note meeting at IHES?
(a) Deligne.
(b) Mumford.
(c) Mostow.
(d) Kazhdan.
3. Which of the following animals does the protagonist assert knows what is fair?
(a) A dog.
(b) A bird.
(c) A cat.
(d) A fish.
4. What is the name of the interlocutor’s wife?
(a) Edie.
(b) Edith.
(c) Edwina.
(d) Edna.
5. Which of the following does the protagonist note as a candidate for a root theory of mathematics?
(a) Newton’s third principle.
(b) Seldon’s psychohistory equations.
(c) Hilbert’s second thesis.
(d) Euclid’s fifth postulate.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following made the protagonist’s violin?
2. What is the name of the protagonist’s uncle?
3. What scholar of quantum mechanics does the protagonist note thinking about?
4. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to be unable to escape?
5. Which mathematician does the protagonist reference in relation to ones and zeroes?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the interlocutor describe his daughter?
2. What hope in solving topological problems does the protagonist note?
3. What does the interlocutor posit should be the defining image of the age in which he lives?
4. Why does the protagonist note she was less disturbed at their father’s death than her brother was?
5. What doubt about the protagonist does the interlocutor voice?
6. What reason does the protagonist give for not pursuing many romantic relationships?
7. What purpose does the protagonist posit for her dominant hallucination from early in her experience with it?
8. Per the novel, what is a prestige?
9. How does the interlocutor explain the proscription against potentially entangling items at Stella Maris?
10. How does the protagonist explain her father’s recourse to alternative medicines?
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