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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 the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Omega.
(b) Zeta.
(c) Alpha.
(d) Iota.

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

3. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He does not notice him.
(b) He wags his tail and licks him.
(c) He growls in his sleep.
(d) He bites him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say must be a chief cause of sexual relationships on earth?

2. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?

3. What does the narrator say is the color of home?

4. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

5. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

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