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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 first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he likes being married.
(b) Whether he would like to go home.
(c) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(d) Whether he has been under pressure.

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

3. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?
(a) Gulliver coming home.
(b) Newton barking.
(c) The phone ringing.
(d) The postman knocking.

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

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

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 causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?

3. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?

4. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

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

(see the answer key)

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