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

2. How does the narrator characterize human love?
(a) The most delicious of songs.
(b) The warmest of annihilations.
(c) The highest of feelings.
(d) The coldest of visions.

3. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?
(a) The texture reminds of him of Daniel Russell’s skin.
(b) The fabric smells funny.
(c) The purple color is painful to him.
(d) The cushions are too soft.

4. How does the narrator know that someone has been in the house while he and Isobel slept?
(a) There are fresh footprints in the kitchen.
(b) Newton barks at them.
(c) Isobel’s computer is open.
(d) He hears footsteps.

5. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) He will be recalled violently.
(b) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.
(c) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(d) They will send a replacement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?

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

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

4. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?

5. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?

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