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

2. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?
(a) Because Isobel scolds him for his rudeness.
(b) Because Newton asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(c) Because Gulliver asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(d) Because he wants to collect more information from her.

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

4. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Malleable.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Patient.
(d) Normal.

5. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?
(a) He has a chance of truly seeing them.
(b) Their innocence will stain the Vonnadorians’ consciences.
(c) Their deaths are mathematically superfluous.
(d) Their deaths will arouse suspicions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

2. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?

3. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?

4. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?

5. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?

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