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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. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?
(a) Boldface.
(b) Quotation marks.
(c) A different font.
(d) Italics.

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?
(a) Murky.
(b) Thin.
(c) Stark.
(d) Bountiful.

4. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?
(a) Irritation.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Bemusement.
(d) Indifference.

5. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Bought himself time.
(b) Saved humanity.
(c) Saved the universe.
(d) Finished his job.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?

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

3. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?

4. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?

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

(see the answer key)

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