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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 50-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Malleable.
(b) Patient.
(c) Normal.
(d) Invisible.

2. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(b) Whether he would like to go home.
(c) Whether he likes being married.
(d) Whether he has been under pressure.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?

2. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?

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

4. Who is the narrator’s audience?

5. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?

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