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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) The supermarket.
(b) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(c) To visit her mother.
(d) To teach a class at Cambridge.

2. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?
(a) Love.
(b) Departure.
(c) Violence.
(d) Laughter.

3. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) Remorse.
(c) A tear in his eye.
(d) A personal sentiment.

4. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?
(a) In the attic.
(b) In a turret.
(c) On the first floor.
(d) In the basement.

5. Where does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin’s psychological problems came from?
(a) A car accident.
(b) Lack of maternal love.
(c) A childhood illness.
(d) Original sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

2. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

3. What is the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?

4. What does the narrator say is the best way to get someone on your side?

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

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