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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 25-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?
(a) She gets up and leaves the room.
(b) She tells him to eat his sandwich.
(c) She starts to laugh.
(d) She weeps and throws a glass at him.

2. Who is the narrator’s audience?
(a) Humans.
(b) Venusians.
(c) Isobel and Gulliver Martin.
(d) Vonnadorians.

3. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Concerned.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Delighted.

4. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?
(a) Rumi.
(b) Robinson Jeffers.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Ann Sexton.

5. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?
(a) Lips.
(b) Hair.
(c) Ears.
(d) Noses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?

4. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?

5. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?

(see the answer key)

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