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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 assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?
(a) That humanity is meaningless.
(b) That humanity teaches kindness and sympathy.
(c) That humanity deserves saving.
(d) That humanity will save the universe.

2. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Random and bewildering.
(b) Beautiful and clean.
(c) Regular and scientific.
(d) Chaotic and mystifying.

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

4. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
(a) 2 years old.
(b) 16 years old.
(c) 9 years old.
(d) 12 years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

2. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

3. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

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

5. What is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?

(see the answer key)

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