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

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

3. 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 move around.
(d) It makes it throb.

4. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) Basset hound.
(b) Springer spaniel.
(c) Pekinese.
(d) German shepherd.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

2. Who is the narrator’s audience?

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

4. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?

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

(see the answer key)

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