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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 do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(b) He will be recalled violently.
(c) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.
(d) They will send a replacement.

2. What does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?
(a) His mathematical genius.
(b) His mathematical certainty.
(c) He passed up a million dollar prize for solving a mathematical problem.
(d) His humanitarian career.

3. What is life like for the narrator after he loses his gifts?
(a) Monotonous.
(b) Challenging.
(c) Fulfilling.
(d) Confusing.

4. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?
(a) He is exhausted for the energy of killing Russell.
(b) He briefly blacks out.
(c) His face becomes his own.
(d) He feels pain in his shoulder.

5. What does the narrator say he found terrifying about making love with Maggie?
(a) The alienation.
(b) The dysfunction.
(c) The violence.
(d) The exoticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does the narrator see on Gulliver’s bed?

2. What does the note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?

3. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

4. What is the narrator about to tell Isobel when he sees Zӧe outside the restaurant?

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?

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