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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 180-209.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?
(a) Distrust and suspicion.
(b) Deep hostility.
(c) Mutual regard.
(d) Indifference.

2. Where does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin’s psychological problems came from?
(a) A childhood illness.
(b) Original sin.
(c) A car accident.
(d) Lack of maternal love.

3. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it worse.
(b) It makes it disappear.
(c) It makes it throb.
(d) It makes it move around.

4. What does the narrator say love allows humans to do?
(a) Defy death.
(b) Defy the messiness of life.
(c) Live in a single moment.
(d) Live forever.

5. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.
(b) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.
(c) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(d) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

2. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?

3. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

4. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?

5. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

(see the answer key)

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