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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 human news is about?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Humans.
(d) War.

2. Why does Ari say that the idea of aliens can only be enjoyed as fiction?
(a) Because the crisis of science being wrong would destroy human knowledge.
(b) Because the reality would push human beings out of the center of their own worldview.
(c) Because there would be panic if people thought it was possible.
(d) Because he does not think it is possible for there to be life elsewhere.

3. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?
(a) In a turret.
(b) On the first floor.
(c) In the attic.
(d) In the basement.

4. What does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?
(a) His humanitarian career.
(b) He passed up a million dollar prize for solving a mathematical problem.
(c) His mathematical certainty.
(d) His mathematical genius.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the hosts tell the narrator to be careful?

2. What part of the night sky does the narrator say affects humans?

3. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?

4. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

5. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?

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