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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 do the narrator’s hosts characterize human beings?
(a) The most tedious of freedoms.
(b) The shallowest of mysteries.
(c) The least forgivable of criminals.
(d) The simplest of problems.

2. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?
(a) Their distance from them.
(b) Their proximity to them.
(c) Their mathematical importance.
(d) Their spiritual importance.

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

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

5. What does the Vonnadorians’ understanding of prime numbers allow them to do?
(a) Time travel.
(b) Invent life forms.
(c) Inhabit other worlds.
(d) Colonize other planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator moved by at Daniel Russell’s funeral?

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 does the narrator conclude human beings enjoy about music?

4. What color are word capsules in the world the narrator comes from?

5. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

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