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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 is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?
(a) Daniel Russell’s fear.
(b) Daniel Russell’s stoicism.
(c) Russell’s wife’s concern.
(d) Russell’s wife’s panic.

2. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.
(b) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(c) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.
(d) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.

3. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?
(a) How will you live without me?
(b) Why do you think I care?
(c) Who’s going to stop me?
(d) What’s in it for you?

4. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A tear in his eye.
(c) Remorse.
(d) A personal sentiment.

5. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?
(a) Longing for glory.
(b) Need for approval.
(c) Fear of ridicule.
(d) Lust for power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?

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

3. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?

4. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

5. What does the narrator attribute Newton’s newfound liveliness to?

(see the answer key)

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