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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 note say, that the narrator finds blowing down from Gulliver’s room?
(a) I’m sorry.
(b) I’m happier now.
(c) You deserve this.
(d) No one will miss me.

2. Why does Ari say that the idea of aliens can only be enjoyed as fiction?
(a) Because the reality would push human beings out of the center of their own worldview.
(b) Because he does not think it is possible for there to be life elsewhere.
(c) Because the crisis of science being wrong would destroy human knowledge.
(d) Because there would be panic if people thought it was possible.

3. How does Ari characterize the duration of human history?
(a) The length of a fart.
(b) The moment of a sneeze.
(c) The blink of an eye.
(d) The flush of a toilet.

4. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Concerned.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Delighted.
(d) Disappointed.

5. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Playboy.
(b) Cosmopolitan.
(c) Wired.
(d) Ladies Home Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say this book is about?

2. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?

3. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

4. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

5. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?

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