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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the poet who gives the narrator hope for humanity?
(a) Robinson Jeffers.
(b) Emily Dickinson.
(c) Ann Sexton.
(d) Rumi.

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

4. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?
(a) She starts to laugh.
(b) She weeps and throws a glass at him.
(c) She gets up and leaves the room.
(d) She tells him to eat his sandwich.

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

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

7. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To visit her mother.
(b) The supermarket.
(c) To pick up Gulliver from school.
(d) To teach a class at Cambridge.

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

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

10. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?
(a) It makes it worse.
(b) It makes it throb.
(c) It makes it disappear.
(d) It makes it move around.

11. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?
(a) Endor.
(b) Venus.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Tatooine.

12. What music does the narrator play, when he feels lonely in the house?
(a) Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
(b) Holst’s The Planets.
(c) Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
(d) Bizet’s Carmen.

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

14. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(b) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.
(c) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.
(d) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.

15. What does the narrator say human news is about?
(a) War.
(b) Humans.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Astronomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

2. What color does the narrator say Gulliver is dressed in, when he interrupts him on the phone?

3. What does the narrator say is the best way to get someone on your side?

4. What color are word capsules in the world the narrator comes from?

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

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