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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 210-230; Part 3, pages 231-246.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Gold.
(d) Purple.

3. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?
(a) He hates it.
(b) It silences him.
(c) It makes him nostalgic.
(d) It soothes him.

4. How does the narrator try to blunt the replacement’s power?
(a) By cutting his left hand off.
(b) By sitting him on the purple couch.
(c) By turning the TV on.
(d) By taking him outside.

5. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?
(a) Copernicus.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Newton.
(d) Feynman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has Andrew Martin taught?

2. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?

3. What is life like for the narrator after he loses his gifts?

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

5. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

(see the answer key)

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