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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 is the narrator’s mission on Earth?
(a) Enhance human mathematics.
(b) Gather information.
(c) Destroy evidence.
(d) Provide regular reports about political events.

2. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?
(a) Bountiful.
(b) Thin.
(c) Stark.
(d) Murky.

3. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?
(a) She weeps and throws a glass at him.
(b) She tells him to eat his sandwich.
(c) She starts to laugh.
(d) She gets up and leaves the room.

4. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?
(a) Irritation.
(b) Bemusement.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Contempt.

5. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?
(a) To generate envy in poorer humans.
(b) To create a sense of inferiority in the reader.
(c) To supplement ethnographic research about how other people live.
(d) To provide political updates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?

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

3. What does the narrator say this book is about?

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

5. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?

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