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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 Gulliver say it is like to be Andrew Martin’s son?
(a) A black eye.
(b) Shoes too small.
(c) Being powerless.
(d) Being broke.

2. What is the narrator’s response when he and Gulliver see the boy who bullied Gulliver?
(a) He protects Gulliver from the boy.
(b) He turns around so the boy doesn’t see them.
(c) He hypnotizes the boy and adjusts his mind.
(d) He challenges the boy to fight.

3. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
(a) Palestrina’s psalms.
(b) Debussy’s Clair de Lune.
(c) Mozart’s Requiem.
(d) Tchaikovsky’s concertos.

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

5. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Regular and scientific.
(b) Beautiful and clean.
(c) Random and bewildering.
(d) Chaotic and mystifying.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?

3. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?

4. What does the narrator offer the hosts as a justification for not killing Isobel and Gulliver?

5. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

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