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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. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?
(a) On the first floor.
(b) In the attic.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In a turret.

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

3. How does Daniel Russell greet the narrator?
(a) As a dirty rascal.
(b) As a pariah.
(c) As the second coming.
(d) As the savior of mankind.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gulliver characterize the effect the narrator’s arrest for nakedness has had on his life?

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

3. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?

4. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?

5. What does the narrator attribute Newton’s newfound liveliness to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with his hosts, now that he is getting accustomed to Andrew Martin’s life?

2. How is the narrator ultimately captured by the police?

3. How does Andrew Martin characterize his discovery in the introduction the narrator reads?

4. What does the narrator tell Daniel Russell before he kills him?

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

6. Who does the narrator meet in the cafeteria in the jail?

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

8. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?

9. How does the narrator ultimately get himself out of prison?

10. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with Newton, the family dog?

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