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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 Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?
(a) It feels like it could explode.
(b) It is beating quick and shallow.
(c) It does not feel like it is beating.
(d) It is beating heavily.

2. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?
(a) The phone ringing.
(b) Newton barking.
(c) The postman knocking.
(d) Gulliver coming home.

3. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?
(a) The highway.
(b) The river.
(c) The city center.
(d) The train tracks.

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

5. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?
(a) He cuts his finger in the kitchen.
(b) He stubs his toe on a door frame.
(c) He bangs his shin on a coffee table.
(d) He hits his head in the shower.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?

2. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?

3. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?

4. What does the narrator say is the best way to get someone on your side?

5. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

(see the answer key)

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