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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 does the narrator say human news is about?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) War.
(d) Humans.

2. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?
(a) Violence.
(b) Love.
(c) Departure.
(d) Laughter.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the narrator to thank someone for the first time in his life?

2. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?

3. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

4. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

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

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