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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. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?
(a) She weeps and throws a glass at him.
(b) She starts to laugh.
(c) She gets up and leaves the room.
(d) She tells him to eat his sandwich.

2. What does the narrator conclude human beings enjoy about music?
(a) Its patterns.
(b) Its orderliness.
(c) Its clear laws.
(d) Its contradictions.

3. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?
(a) He stubs his toe on a door frame.
(b) He cuts his finger in the kitchen.
(c) He hits his head in the shower.
(d) He bangs his shin on a coffee table.

4. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 1,253 pages.
(b) 251 pages.
(c) 469 pages.
(d) 917 pages.

5. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 2 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?

2. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?

3. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

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?

5. What does the narrator say happens when everything becomes alien?

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