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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 conclude after following Gulliver?
(a) That he wants to avoid people.
(b) That he is dealing drugs.
(c) That he is suicidal.
(d) That he is preparing for a weightlifting tournament.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?

3. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?

4. What is the narrator’s favorite primer number?

5. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the narrator’s first experience of food and drink like?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the narrator characterize his relationship with human music?

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

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

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