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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 does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?
(a) His mathematical genius.
(b) His humanitarian career.
(c) His mathematical certainty.
(d) He passed up a million dollar prize for solving a mathematical problem.

2. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?
(a) He says that he was only sleepwalking.
(b) He says that it was just Gulliver’s drugs.
(c) He says that Gulliver was defending himself.
(d) He says that he deserved it.

3. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?
(a) That they are advanced.
(b) That they are alone.
(c) That they control their lives.
(d) That they are divine.

4. What causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?
(a) Zӧe compliments him.
(b) Isobel brings him a sandwich.
(c) Ari gives him a ride home.
(d) Gulliver says he hope he is feeling better.

5. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?
(a) The phone ringing.
(b) Newton barking.
(c) The postman knocking.
(d) Gulliver coming home.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?

5. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?

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