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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 disappear.
(b) It makes it worse.
(c) It makes it move around.
(d) It makes it throb.

2. What does the narrator say human news ought to be called?
(a) The Dog and Pony show.
(b) The War and Money show.
(c) The Fame and Embarrassment show.
(d) The Greed and Violence show.

3. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?
(a) When they are musicians.
(b) When they are rich.
(c) When they are mathematicians.
(d) When they are painters.

4. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To visit her mother.
(b) To teach a class at Cambridge.
(c) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(d) The supermarket.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What delusion does the narrator think humans have?

2. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?

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

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

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

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