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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. At what facility had the protagonist’s mother worked?

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

3. What group did Grothendieck lead?

4. What case number is assigned to the protagonist?

5. Which of the following, per the novel, is a type of quark?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what capacity is the protagonist initially assumed to work at IHES?

2. Why does the protagonist note having reacted badly to her childhood ophthalmologist?

3. How does the interlocutor note patients surprise him?

4. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

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

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

7. Why had the protagonist hoped to get into the Coletta facility?

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

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

10. What vices does the protagonist deny having?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider adapting Stella Maris into another medium. What medium would be most appropriate for the novel’s adaptation? What in the novel and what qualities of the medium suggest that appropriateness? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 2

The novel motions towards an idea of what it means to be great. What is that idea? What in the text indicates as much? How does the text indicate as much?

Essay Topic 3

While the novel is told from a third-person perspective, much of it is narrated by the protagonist rehearsing events to an interlocutor. How reliable is the protagonist of the novel as a narrator? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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