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

2. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Malleable.
(b) Patient.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Normal.

3. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Bring humanity closer to divinity.
(b) Bring riches to people who understand it.
(c) Show people their humble origins.
(d) Provide more power.

4. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) They will send a replacement.
(b) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(c) He will be recalled violently.
(d) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.

5. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
(a) Mozart’s Requiem.
(b) Palestrina’s psalms.
(c) Debussy’s Clair de Lune.
(d) Tchaikovsky’s concertos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

2. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?

3. How does the narrator characterize dogs?

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

5. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?

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