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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Provide more power.
(b) Show people their humble origins.
(c) Bring humanity closer to divinity.
(d) Bring riches to people who understand it.

2. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?
(a) Because Isobel scolds him for his rudeness.
(b) Because Gulliver asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(c) Because Newton asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(d) Because he wants to collect more information from her.

3. What deos the narrator say is the chief purpose of magazines?
(a) To provide political updates.
(b) To create a sense of inferiority in the reader.
(c) To supplement ethnographic research about how other people live.
(d) To generate envy in poorer humans.

4. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?
(a) He groans.
(b) He laments.
(c) He accuses.
(d) He protests.

5. What is the first step the narrator takes in killing Daniel Russell?
(a) Stopping his heart.
(b) Paralyzing his jaw.
(c) Paralyzing his hands.
(d) Blinding his eyes.

6. What happened to cause Andrew Martin to stop liking his son?
(a) Gulliver got in a bad car wreck.
(b) Gulliver was expelled from school for arson.
(c) Gulliver was arrested for smoking pot.
(d) Gulliver ran away from home.

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

8. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) He will be recalled violently.
(b) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(c) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.
(d) They will send a replacement.

9. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?
(a) Whether he would like to go home.
(b) Whether he is having an affair with a student.
(c) Whether he has been under pressure.
(d) Whether he likes being married.

10. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?
(a) It reduces suffering in the universe.
(b) It prevents the spread of misunderstanding.
(c) It saves many lives.
(d) It puts humans out of their misery.

11. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?
(a) It does not feel like it is beating.
(b) It is beating heavily.
(c) It feels like it could explode.
(d) It is beating quick and shallow.

12. What is the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Alpha.
(b) Omega.
(c) Zeta.
(d) Iota.

13. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?
(a) Purple.
(b) White.
(c) Gold.
(d) Black.

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

15. What human food does the narrator discover he likes a lot?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Rice and beans.
(c) Foie gras.
(d) Sushi.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

3. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?

4. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?

5. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

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