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

2. What does the narrator say human news is about?
(a) War.
(b) Humans.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Astronomy.

3. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He bites him.
(b) He growls in his sleep.
(c) He wags his tail and licks him.
(d) He does not notice him.

4. What does the narrator say this book is about?
(a) How to become human.
(b) How to fall in love.
(c) How to kill a Vonnadorian.
(d) How to travel through time and space.

5. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.
(b) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.
(c) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(d) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

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

3. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

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

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

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