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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 180-209.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?
(a) When they are rich.
(b) When they are musicians.
(c) When they are mathematicians.
(d) When they are painters.

2. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?
(a) He will never be able to return home.
(b) He will never become fully human.
(c) He will start to decompose in Earth’s atmosphere.
(d) He will have to start again as a human child.

3. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?
(a) It made him a curiosity.
(b) It made him a laughing stork.
(c) It made him a celebrity.
(d) It ruined his life.

4. How does Gulliver make the narrator forget his worries?
(a) By saying that he loves him.
(b) By playing a song on the guitar.
(c) By getting good grades in school.
(d) By reciting Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

5. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?
(a) That he is dealing drugs.
(b) That he is suicidal.
(c) That he is preparing for a weightlifting tournament.
(d) That he wants to avoid people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?

2. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

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

4. How does the narrator excuse Gulliver’s violence?

5. What does the narrator say has happened to the Andrew Martin who was afraid of emotion?

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