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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say everything is, on Earth?
(a) A betrayal.
(b) A trial.
(c) A test.
(d) A tragedy.

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

4. Who is the narrator’s audience?
(a) Venusians.
(b) Humans.
(c) Isobel and Gulliver Martin.
(d) Vonnadorians.

5. 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 hits his head in the shower.
(d) He cuts his finger in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?

2. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?

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

4. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

5. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening in the first scene the narrator describes in his narrative?

2. How does the narrator characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Gulliver, his son?

3. What does the narrator learn about mathematicians that undermines his core beliefs about human beings?

4. How does Haig characterize the marriage between Andrew and Isobel Martin?

5. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?

6. What happens in the narrator’s interview with Andrew Martin’s wife Isobel?

7. What makes the narrator’s narrative so funny?

8. How does the narrator characterize life in the world he comes from?

9. What does Gulliver tell the narrator about the Martins’ household?

10. Why does the narrator say that Andrew Martin’s discovery needs to be erased?

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