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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 do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?
(a) The mathematical certainty of his mission.
(b) The unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.
(c) The purity of reason.
(d) The inevitability of death for Isobel and Gulliver.

2. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?
(a) That humanity will save the universe.
(b) That humanity teaches kindness and sympathy.
(c) That humanity is meaningless.
(d) That humanity deserves saving.

3. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?
(a) Gulliver got in a bad car wreck.
(b) Gulliver was expelled from school for arson.
(c) Gulliver was arrested for smoking pot.
(d) Gulliver ran away from home.

4. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Patient.
(b) Normal.
(c) Invisible.
(d) Malleable.

5. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.
(b) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.
(c) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(d) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?

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

3. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?

4. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?

5. What does the Vonnadorians’ understanding of prime numbers allow them to do?

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