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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 71-96.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he would like to go home.
(b) Whether he has been under pressure.
(c) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(d) Whether he likes being married.

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

4. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?

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

3. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?

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 deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?

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