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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 is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?
(a) Being hit by a car.
(b) Shoplifting.
(c) Making love.
(d) Being arrested.

2. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Relief.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Pain.

3. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.
(b) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.
(c) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(d) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.

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

5. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As familiar.
(b) As alien to him.
(c) As beautiful.
(d) As impossible to differentiate between.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?

2. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

3. What does the narrator say human news is about?

4. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

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

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