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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 like about Emily Dickinson’s poetry?
(a) Its mythical narratives.
(b) Its love for fellow human beings.
(c) Its respect for absolute decrees.
(d) Its focus on the open-ended nature of human experience.

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the light in the interrogation room?
(a) Murky.
(b) Thin.
(c) Bountiful.
(d) Stark.

4. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 1 year.

5. Where does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin’s psychological problems came from?
(a) Lack of maternal love.
(b) A childhood illness.
(c) Original sin.
(d) A car accident.

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

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

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

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

10. What does the narrator say civilization results from, on Earth?
(a) Humans acting on their instincts.
(b) Humans harnessing their instincts.
(c) Humans suppressing their instincts.
(d) Humans revising their instincts.

11. What does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin is motivated by?
(a) Need for approval.
(b) Longing for glory.
(c) Lust for power.
(d) Fear of ridicule.

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

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

14. What does the narrator find most appalling about humans’ appearance?
(a) Noses.
(b) Ears.
(c) Lips.
(d) Hair.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?

3. What is the narrator’s favorite primer number?

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

5. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?

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