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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 118-148.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Daniel Russell greet the narrator?
(a) As a dirty rascal.
(b) As a pariah.
(c) As the savior of mankind.
(d) As the second coming.

2. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?
(a) A plant.
(b) The parking lot.
(c) A crowd of people at a distance.
(d) A hillside.

3. What is the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Iota.
(b) Zeta.
(c) Omega.
(d) Alpha.

4. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?
(a) Because Gulliver asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(b) Because Newton asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(c) Because Isobel scolds him for his rudeness.
(d) Because he wants to collect more information from her.

5. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?
(a) Their deaths will arouse suspicions.
(b) Their deaths are mathematically superfluous.
(c) Their innocence will stain the Vonnadorians’ consciences.
(d) He has a chance of truly seeing them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobel’s alter ego in her novel say will happen if she solves the mystery of her marriage?

2. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?

3. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?

4. What does the Vonnadorians’ understanding of prime numbers allow them to do?

5. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?

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