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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 human food does the narrator discover he likes a lot?
(a) Foie gras.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Sushi.
(d) Rice and beans.

2. What is the title of Isobel’s novel?
(a) Wider Than the Sky.
(b) Longer Than Time.
(c) Deeper Than the Ocean.
(d) Darker Than the Night.

3. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Regular and scientific.
(b) Beautiful and clean.
(c) Random and bewildering.
(d) Chaotic and mystifying.

4. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Bring humanity closer to divinity.
(b) Provide more power.
(c) Bring riches to people who understand it.
(d) Show people their humble origins.

5. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?
(a) Bizet’s Carmen.
(b) Holst’s The Planets.
(c) Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
(d) Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator try to get Gulliver to kill himself?

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

3. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?

4. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?

5. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?

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