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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 most significant of the human languages he will have to master?
(a) The language of frowns.
(b) The language of silent moments.
(c) The language of eyebrows.
(d) The language of sighs.

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

3. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Relief.
(c) Pain.
(d) Trouble.

4. What trait does the narrator say makes up for the humans’ lack of physical attractiveness?
(a) Their compassion.
(b) Their gullibility.
(c) Their rationality.
(d) Their intelligence.

5. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?
(a) The highway.
(b) The train tracks.
(c) The city center.
(d) The river.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?

2. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

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

4. What does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?

5. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

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