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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Relief.
(c) Trouble.
(d) Pain.

2. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He wags his tail and licks him.
(b) He bites him.
(c) He growls in his sleep.
(d) He does not notice him.

3. What does the narrator say this book is about?
(a) How to kill a Vonnadorian.
(b) How to travel through time and space.
(c) How to become human.
(d) How to fall in love.

4. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.
(b) It gives him a satisfying blindness.
(c) It gives him the pleasure of counting.
(d) It gives him nostalgia for home.

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

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

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

8. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) Springer spaniel.
(b) Pekinese.
(c) German shepherd.
(d) Basset hound.

9. Why does the narrator say he does not like wearing clothes?
(a) They chafe.
(b) They are embarrassing.
(c) They are not geometrical enough.
(d) He prefers glorious nakedness.

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

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

12. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
(a) 16 years old.
(b) 2 years old.
(c) 12 years old.
(d) 9 years old.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?

2. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?

3. How does Isobel Martin characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Daniel Russell?

4. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?

5. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?

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