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

2. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?
(a) Love.
(b) Violence.
(c) Departure.
(d) Laughter.

3. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him a satisfying blindness.
(b) It gives him the pleasure of counting.
(c) It gives him nostalgia for home.
(d) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.

4. What does the narrator learn from questioning Gulliver?
(a) That no one likes him.
(b) That Andrew Martin’s family is quite wealthy.
(c) That everyone in Gulliver’s school is proud of him.
(d) That Isobel Martin is about to leave him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?

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

3. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?

4. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?

5. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?

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