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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. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her smell.
(c) Her nose.
(d) Her soft voice.

2. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he has been under pressure.
(b) Whether he likes being married.
(c) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(d) Whether he would like to go home.

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

4. What part of the night sky does the narrator say affects humans?
(a) Its orderliness.
(b) Its lifelessness.
(c) Its darkness.
(d) The brightness of the stars.

5. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?
(a) Purple.
(b) Black.
(c) Gold.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

2. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?

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

4. What is the narrator honest about with Daniel Russell?

5. What does Ari compare prime numbers to?

(see the answer key)

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