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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 97-117.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?
(a) Disbelief.
(b) Love.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Fear.

2. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it disappear.
(b) It makes it throb.
(c) It makes it move around.
(d) It makes it worse.

3. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?
(a) That he is dealing drugs.
(b) That he is suicidal.
(c) That he wants to avoid people.
(d) That he is preparing for a weightlifting tournament.

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

5. What does the narrator say is the color of home?
(a) Blue.
(b) Violet.
(c) Maroon.
(d) Pink.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?

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

3. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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