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

2. What color are word capsules in the world the narrator comes from?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

3. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?
(a) It soothes him.
(b) It silences him.
(c) He hates it.
(d) It makes him nostalgic.

4. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?
(a) They are not geometrical enough.
(b) They chafe.
(c) They are embarrassing.
(d) He prefers glorious nakedness.

5. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?
(a) Fitzwilliam College.
(b) Emmanuel College.
(c) Trinity College.
(d) Downing College.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?

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

3. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?

4. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?

5. How does Matt Haig represent the hosts’ speech?

(see the answer key)

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