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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which city does the interlocutor teach?

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

3. In what year is the protagonist admitted to Stella Maris?

4. What name did the Kid believe Dirac had?

5. On what holiday was the protagonist born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the protagonist cite as the incident inciting her seeking admission at Stella Maris?

2. What vice does the protagonist admit to having?

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

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

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

6. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

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

8. What agreement is implied to exist between the protagonist and interlocutor as the main text of the novel begins?

9. What is the two-slit experiment?

10. How does the protagonist explain Grothendieck’s activism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the novel’s title.

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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