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

2. What is the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Iota.
(b) Omega.
(c) Zeta.
(d) Alpha.

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

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) How will you live without me?
(c) What’s in it for you?
(d) Who’s going to stop me?

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

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

3. What book does the narrator see on Gulliver’s bed?

4. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?

5. Where has Andrew Martin taught?

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