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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 find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?
(a) His mathematical genius.
(b) He passed up a million dollar prize for solving a mathematical problem.
(c) His humanitarian career.
(d) His mathematical certainty.

2. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?
(a) To generate envy in poorer humans.
(b) To supplement ethnographic research about how other people live.
(c) To provide political updates.
(d) To create a sense of inferiority in the reader.

3. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?
(a) That humanity is meaningless.
(b) That humanity teaches kindness and sympathy.
(c) That humanity deserves saving.
(d) That humanity will save the universe.

4. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?
(a) Destroy evidence.
(b) Enhance human mathematics.
(c) Gather information.
(d) Provide regular reports about political events.

5. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 1,253 pages.
(b) 251 pages.
(c) 469 pages.
(d) 917 pages.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator’s first experience on Earth?

3. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?

4. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

5. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?

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