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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. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?
(a) It reduces suffering in the universe.
(b) It prevents the spread of misunderstanding.
(c) It puts humans out of their misery.
(d) It saves many lives.

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

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

4. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He does not notice him.
(b) He wags his tail and licks him.
(c) He growls in his sleep.
(d) He bites him.

5. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?
(a) Thin.
(b) Bountiful.
(c) Murky.
(d) Stark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?

2. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?

3. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?

4. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

5. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?

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