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

2. What book does the narrator see on Gulliver’s bed?
(a) Ham on Rye by Bukowski.
(b) War and Peace by Tolstoy.
(c) Franny and Zooey by Salinger.
(d) Naked Lunch by Burroughs.

3. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?
(a) When they are mathematicians.
(b) When they are painters.
(c) When they are rich.
(d) When they are musicians.

4. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?
(a) Their spiritual importance.
(b) Their proximity to them.
(c) Their distance from them.
(d) Their mathematical importance.

5. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?
(a) Venus.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Tatooine.
(d) Endor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?

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

3. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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