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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 the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Random and bewildering.
(b) Regular and scientific.
(c) Beautiful and clean.
(d) Chaotic and mystifying.

2. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him a satisfying blindness.
(b) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.
(c) It gives him nostalgia for home.
(d) It gives him the pleasure of counting.

3. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?
(a) The impossibility of escape from Earth.
(b) The inevitability of his suffering and death.
(c) The ubiquity of threats to human life.
(d) The improbability of human life.

4. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) The memory of Russell’s dying face.
(b) The air he is breathing.
(c) Nostalgia for home.
(d) The chicken Isobel cooked him.

5. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
(a) Mozart’s Requiem.
(b) Palestrina’s psalms.
(c) Debussy’s Clair de Lune.
(d) Tchaikovsky’s concertos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

2. What is the narrator’s favorite primer number?

3. What does the narrator say happens after he fails to kill Isobel?

4. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

5. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?

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