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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. What does the narrator say is the best way to get someone on your side?
(a) Serve them food.
(b) Show them what you stand for.
(c) Relieve their pain.
(d) Show them your vulnerability.

2. What does the narrator say has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?
(a) That me has been converted.
(b) That be has been reborn.
(c) That me is dead.
(d) That me has been reprogrammed.

3. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He wags his tail and licks him.
(b) He bites him.
(c) He does not notice him.
(d) He growls in his sleep.

4. How long does Isobel say it has been, since she and her husband talked as openly as they talk after Hamlet?
(a) They have never talked so openly.
(b) Years.
(c) Decades.
(d) Months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?

2. What does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?

3. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?

4. How does the narrator characterize his feelings before making love with Isobel?

5. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?

(see the answer key)

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