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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. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As beautiful.
(b) As impossible to differentiate between.
(c) As familiar.
(d) As alien to him.

2. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?
(a) Fear.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Love.
(d) Disbelief.

3. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?
(a) The inevitability of death for Isobel and Gulliver.
(b) The unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.
(c) The purity of reason.
(d) The mathematical certainty of his mission.

4. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Wired.
(b) Cosmopolitan.
(c) Ladies Home Journal.
(d) Playboy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?

2. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

3. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?

4. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?

5. What is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?

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