Stella Maris Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What caused Alicia’s mother’s death? (from Chapter III)

She died by suicide after the atomic bomb was deployed against Japan in WWII.

She died in a car accident.

She died in a freak accident on her family's farm.

Cancer, likely a result of radiation exposure in a facility that creates nuclear fuel.

2.

How does Bobby respond when Alicia tells him about her dream of them together? (from Chapters VI and VII)

He cries in despair.

He rebuffs her and says that she cannot speak to him that way.

He laughs, considering it a joke.

He tells their grandmother about it.

3.

What is a calutron? (from Chapter III)

A tool for psychiatric analysis.

A machine that develops fuel for nuclear reactions.

The name of Alicia's vision.

A subfield of mathematics.

4.

How does Alicia describe her ideal death at the end of Stella Maris? (from Chapters VI and VII)

She finds a way to kill herself in Stella Maris.

She drowns herself in Lake Tahoe.

She travels back to Italy and reunites with her brother before committing suicide.

She gives up her possessions and slowly starves in an idyllic rural setting in Romania.

5.

What does Alicia share about Grothendieck with Dr. Cohen? (from Chapter I)

That he physically absued her.

That they bonded by playing music together.

That she considered him a fraud, who never substantively contributed to the field of mathematics.

That he is a prominent mathematician who invited her to study at the IHES, and that the two share a common skepticism about the nature of their discipline.

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