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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which of the following does I begin?
(a) “Good morning.”
(b) “How have you been?”
(c) “I thought perhaps you weren’t coming.”
(d) “Hi. I’m Dr Cohen.”

2. With which of the following does IV end?
(a) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(b) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”
(c) “Salvaged out of a bleak sea of the incomputable. Time’s up.”
(d) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”

3. The novel explains the term “orts” as akin to which of the following?
(a) Shorts.
(b) Exhorts.
(c) Cohorts.
(d) Ports.

4. What case number is assigned to the protagonist?
(a) BR-549.
(b) TK-421.
(c) 72-118.
(d) 50-830.

5. Which of the following astronomers does the protagonist report admiring?
(a) Rubin.
(b) Copernicus.
(c) Leavitt.
(d) Hypatia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bathtubs is Los Alamos reported to have?

2. In what state is Stella Maris?

3. Per the novel, how large a percentage of the general population is Jewish?

4. What is the name of the interlocutor’s wife?

5. What group did Grothendieck lead?

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