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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 question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?
(a) What’s in it for you?
(b) Who’s going to stop me?
(c) Why do you think I care?
(d) How will you live without me?

2. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?
(a) The inevitability of death for Isobel and Gulliver.
(b) The purity of reason.
(c) The unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.
(d) The mathematical certainty of his mission.

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

4. What causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?
(a) Isobel brings him a sandwich.
(b) Gulliver says he hope he is feeling better.
(c) Ari gives him a ride home.
(d) Zӧe compliments him.

5. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?
(a) That he is having an affair with his student.
(b) That he is the smartest human on Earth.
(c) That he has just solved the Riemann Hypothesis.
(d) That he is above the law.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?

3. Who is the narrator’s audience?

4. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

5. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?

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