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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 starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?
(a) The improbability of human life.
(b) The ubiquity of threats to human life.
(c) The inevitability of his suffering and death.
(d) The impossibility of escape from Earth.

2. What does the narrator say is the quintessential experience that defines being on Earth?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Disbelief.

3. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?
(a) Daniel Russell’s stoicism.
(b) Russell’s wife’s concern.
(c) Russell’s wife’s panic.
(d) Daniel Russell’s fear.

4. What does the narrator say happens after he fails to kill Isobel?
(a) He says that he became fully human.
(b) He says that she threatened to kill him.
(c) He says that his head was taken over by violet pain.
(d) He says that he became a me instead of a we.

5. Why does the narrator want to replace the purple sofa?
(a) The texture reminds of him of Daniel Russell’s skin.
(b) The cushions are too soft.
(c) The purple color is painful to him.
(d) The fabric smells funny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is represented by the formula on the student’s t-shirt?

2. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?

3. What is the first step the narrator takes in killing Daniel Russell?

4. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?

5. What does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?

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