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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, pages 247-279.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ari characterize the duration of human history?
(a) The length of a fart.
(b) The flush of a toilet.
(c) The blink of an eye.
(d) The moment of a sneeze.

2. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Bemusement.
(d) Irritation.

3. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Saved the universe.
(b) Finished his job.
(c) Bought himself time.
(d) Saved humanity.

4. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) The chicken Isobel cooked him.
(b) The memory of Russell’s dying face.
(c) Nostalgia for home.
(d) The air he is breathing.

5. What does the narrator say happens when everything becomes alien?
(a) It is time to go.
(b) The breakdown begins.
(c) Reason emerges.
(d) The alien becomes familiar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

2. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

3. Why does the narrator put his hand on the stove?

4. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?

5. What does the narrator say must be a chief cause of sexual relationships on earth?

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