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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 149-179.

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 silent moments.
(b) The language of frowns.
(c) The language of eyebrows.
(d) The language of sighs.

2. What does the narrator say human news is about?
(a) War.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Humans.
(d) Astronomy.

3. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As beautiful.
(b) As familiar.
(c) As alien to him.
(d) As impossible to differentiate between.

4. What is the top secret thing Ari mentions to the narrator?
(a) Andrew Martin’s affair with Maggie.
(b) Andrew Martin’s proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.
(c) The narrator’s true origins.
(d) The true cause of Daniel Russell’s death.

5. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?
(a) Her smell.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her soft voice.
(d) Her nose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

2. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?

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

4. What does Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?

5. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

(see the answer key)

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