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

2. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Regular and scientific.
(b) Random and bewildering.
(c) Beautiful and clean.
(d) Chaotic and mystifying.

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

4. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?
(a) Why do you think I care?
(b) What’s in it for you?
(c) How will you live without me?
(d) Who’s going to stop me?

5. What trait does the narrator say makes up for the humans’ lack of physical attractiveness?
(a) Their rationality.
(b) Their compassion.
(c) Their intelligence.
(d) Their gullibility.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?

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

3. What is the narrator honest about with Daniel Russell?

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

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

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