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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) Remorse.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) A personal sentiment.
(d) A tear in his eye.

2. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?
(a) Fitzwilliam College.
(b) Downing College.
(c) Trinity College.
(d) Emmanuel College.

3. How does Daniel Russell greet the narrator?
(a) As the savior of mankind.
(b) As a pariah.
(c) As the second coming.
(d) As a dirty rascal.

4. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?
(a) Their distance from them.
(b) Their proximity to them.
(c) Their spiritual importance.
(d) Their mathematical importance.

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

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

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

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

9. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?
(a) It makes him nostalgic.
(b) It silences him.
(c) He hates it.
(d) It soothes him.

10. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?
(a) That he is above the law.
(b) That he is the smartest human on Earth.
(c) That he has just solved the Riemann Hypothesis.
(d) That he is having an affair with his student.

11. What is the narrator honest about with Daniel Russell?
(a) His origins.
(b) The existence of life on other planets.
(c) Andrew Martin’s marriage.
(d) Andrew Martin’s proof.

12. What does the narrator attribute Newton’s newfound liveliness to?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Lots of sleep.
(c) Long walks.
(d) Companionship.

13. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As impossible to differentiate between.
(b) As beautiful.
(c) As familiar.
(d) As alien to him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?

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

5. What do the hosts say the narrator should not interfere with?

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