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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 does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(b) Humans acting on their instincts.
(c) Humans suppressing their instincts.
(d) Humans revising their instincts.

2. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
(a) 12 years old.
(b) 2 years old.
(c) 9 years old.
(d) 16 years old.

3. Where has Andrew Martin taught?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Oxford.

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

5. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Pain.
(b) Relief.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?

2. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?

3. Where does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin’s psychological problems came from?

4. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?

5. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

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