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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) Relief.
(b) Pain.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Knowledge.

2. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Delighted.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Concerned.
(d) Disappointed.

3. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?
(a) A tragedy.
(b) A trial.
(c) A test.
(d) A betrayal.

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

5. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?
(a) That he is above the law.
(b) That he is the smartest human on Earth.
(c) That he is having an affair with his student.
(d) That he has just solved the Riemann Hypothesis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?

3. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?

4. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?

5. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?

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