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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 effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it worse.
(b) It makes it disappear.
(c) It makes it throb.
(d) It makes it move around.

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

3. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?
(a) Endor.
(b) Venus.
(c) Tatooine.
(d) Pluto.

4. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?
(a) Disbelief.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anxiety.

5. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He growls in his sleep.
(b) He bites him.
(c) He wags his tail and licks him.
(d) He does not notice him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?

3. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?

4. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?

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

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