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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to be unable to escape?
(a) Husserl.
(b) Plato.
(c) Heidegger.
(d) Wittgenstein.

2. In which of the following does the protagonist’s father die?
(a) Juárez.
(b) Knoxville.
(c) El Paso.
(d) Lake Tahoe.

3. What group did Grothendieck lead?
(a) Peck.
(b) Besse.
(c) Bourbaki.
(d) Rainwater.

4. With which of the following does II begin?
(a) “How are you doing?”
(b) “How have you been?”
(c) “I thought perhaps you weren’t coming.”
(d) “Good morning.”

5. In what year was the protagonist born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1953.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what holiday was the protagonist born?

2. Whom does the protagonist ask if patients will surprise?

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

4. What scientist does the protagonist note was troubled by the unconscious?

5. Per the novel, how large a percentage of the population of mathematicians is Jewish?

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