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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 impossible to differentiate between.
(b) As alien to him.
(c) As beautiful.
(d) As familiar.

2. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Provide more power.
(b) Bring riches to people who understand it.
(c) Show people their humble origins.
(d) Bring humanity closer to divinity.

3. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To teach a class at Cambridge.
(b) The supermarket.
(c) To visit her mother.
(d) To pick up Gulliver from school.

4. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?
(a) Endor.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Tatooine.
(d) Venus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?

2. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?

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

4. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?

5. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

(see the answer key)

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