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

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

3. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Cosmopolitan.
(b) Playboy.
(c) Wired.
(d) Ladies Home Journal.

4. What book does the narrator see on Gulliver’s bed?
(a) Naked Lunch by Burroughs.
(b) Ham on Rye by Bukowski.
(c) War and Peace by Tolstoy.
(d) Franny and Zooey by Salinger.

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

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

7. How does the narrator injure himself in the house?
(a) He bangs his shin on a coffee table.
(b) He stubs his toe on a door frame.
(c) He cuts his finger in the kitchen.
(d) He hits his head in the shower.

8. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?
(a) What’s in it for you?
(b) Who’s going to stop me?
(c) Why do you think I care?
(d) How will you live without me?

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

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

11. What does the narrator say is the one condition under which humans tolerate mad people?
(a) When they are painters.
(b) When they are mathematicians.
(c) When they are musicians.
(d) When they are rich.

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

13. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?
(a) Because he is afraid she will see that he is not her son.
(b) Because he needs to talk to Gulliver about school.
(c) Because Isobel comes into the room with a question for him.
(d) Because there are no cosmic consequences if he does.

14. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?
(a) The parking lot.
(b) A plant.
(c) A hillside.
(d) A crowd of people at a distance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin’s psychological problems came from?

2. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?

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

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

5. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?

(see the answer keys)

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