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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 do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?
(a) The mathematical certainty of his mission.
(b) The inevitability of death for Isobel and Gulliver.
(c) The purity of reason.
(d) The unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.

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

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

4. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?
(a) Gulliver was arrested for smoking pot.
(b) Gulliver was expelled from school for arson.
(c) Gulliver got in a bad car wreck.
(d) Gulliver ran away from home.

5. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(b) Humans suppressing their instincts.
(c) Humans acting on their instincts.
(d) Humans revising their instincts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

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

3. What is the title of Isobel’s novel?

4. What part of the night sky does the narrator say affects humans?

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

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