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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 long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 1,253 pages.
(b) 917 pages.
(c) 469 pages.
(d) 251 pages.

2. 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) What’s in it for you?
(c) Why do you think I care?
(d) Who’s going to stop me?

3. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?
(a) When they are rich.
(b) When they are musicians.
(c) When they are mathematicians.
(d) When they are painters.

4. Who is the narrator’s audience?
(a) Humans.
(b) Venusians.
(c) Vonnadorians.
(d) Isobel and Gulliver Martin.

5. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?
(a) It is beating quick and shallow.
(b) It is beating heavily.
(c) It does not feel like it is beating.
(d) It feels like it could explode.

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 planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?

3. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

4. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?

5. What does the narrator say human news is about?

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