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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 everything is, on Earth?
(a) A trial.
(b) A betrayal.
(c) A test.
(d) A tragedy.
2. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Bring humanity closer to divinity.
(b) Provide more power.
(c) Show people their humble origins.
(d) Bring riches to people who understand it.
3. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him nostalgia for home.
(b) It gives him a satisfying blindness.
(c) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.
(d) It gives him the pleasure of counting.
4. How does the narrator describe humans?
(a) As beautiful.
(b) As alien to him.
(c) As familiar.
(d) As impossible to differentiate between.
5. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?
(a) The highway.
(b) The train tracks.
(c) The city center.
(d) The river.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
2. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?
3. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?
4. What does the narrator say human news is about?
5. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with human music?
2. What is the narrator’s relationship with pain like?
3. What happens to the narrator for the first time in his life when Isobel gives him a sandwich?
4. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?
5. What is happening in the first scene the narrator describes in his narrative?
6. What is the narrator’s first experience of food and drink like?
7. How does the narrator characterize Andrew Martin’s relationship with Gulliver, his son?
8. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with his hosts, now that he is getting accustomed to Andrew Martin’s life?
9. What happens in the narrator’s interrogation by police?
10. How does the narrator explain the Riemann Hypothesis, and what does he say Andrew Martin discovered about it?
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