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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator call Andrew Martin’s mother back, after he hangs up on her?
(a) Because Isobel scolds him for his rudeness.
(b) Because he wants to collect more information from her.
(c) Because Gulliver asks him why he did not say goodbye.
(d) Because Newton asks him why he did not say goodbye.

2. 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 ruined his life.
(c) It made him a laughing stork.
(d) It made him a celebrity.

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

4. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?
(a) His face becomes his own.
(b) He briefly blacks out.
(c) He is exhausted for the energy of killing Russell.
(d) He feels pain in his shoulder.

5. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Finished his job.
(b) Bought himself time.
(c) Saved the universe.
(d) Saved humanity.

6. 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.

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

8. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Provide more power.
(b) Show people their humble origins.
(c) Bring riches to people who understand it.
(d) Bring humanity closer to divinity.

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

10. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?
(a) That humanity will save the universe.
(b) That humanity deserves saving.
(c) That humanity is meaningless.
(d) That humanity teaches kindness and sympathy.

11. How does the narrator characterize dogs?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Loving.
(c) Judicious.
(d) Needy.

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

13. What does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?
(a) His mathematical certainty.
(b) His humanitarian career.
(c) His mathematical genius.
(d) He passed up a million dollar prize for solving a mathematical problem.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?

2. How does the narrator justify killing Daniel Russell?

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

4. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?

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

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