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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the protagonist’s mother place in a state beauty contest?
(a) Third.
(b) She was disqualified.
(c) Second.
(d) First.

2. From where did the protagonist’s family move to Wartburg?
(a) Reagan.
(b) Clinton.
(c) Bush.
(d) Carter.

3. With which philosopher does the protagonist associate the wish not to have been?
(a) Anaximander.
(b) Parmenides.
(c) Heraclitus.
(d) Anaximenes.

4. Per the novel, how large a percentage of the general population is Jewish?
(a) 8.
(b) 20.
(c) 2.
(d) 80.

5. In which city is Stella Maris?
(a) Stevens Point.
(b) Tomah.
(c) Black River Falls.
(d) Marshfield.

6. Which degree does the interlocutor report holding?
(a) MD.
(b) PsyD.
(c) PhD.
(d) DO.

7. In which of the following thinkers was the protagonist’s father interested?
(a) Wittgenstein.
(b) Hofstadter.
(c) Gödel.
(d) Turing.

8. With which of the following does I end?
(a) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(b) “Then in the morning we sat in the sand and drank our tea and watched the sun come up.”
(c) “Oh. Yes. Of course.”
(d) “Yes. I’m sorry.”

9. For how much does the protagonist purchase her violin?
(a) $230,000.
(b) $370,000.
(c) $300,000.
(d) $160,000.

10. How old is the protagonist’s brother when their mother dies?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

11. What kind of particle, per the novel, behaves oddly with Stern-Gerlach magnets?
(a) Radium.
(b) Potassium.
(c) Chlorine.
(d) Sodium.

12. For whom, along with Grothendieck, was the IHES established?
(a) Motchane.
(b) Dieudonné.
(c) Poincaré.
(d) Oppenheimer.

13. Which of the following philosophers does the protagonist reference in regards to her violin?
(a) Davidson.
(b) Carnap.
(c) Putnam.
(d) Quine.

14. In which city does the interlocutor teach?
(a) Madison.
(b) Stevens Point.
(c) Eau Claire.
(d) Green Bay.

15. To which of the following tests had the protagonist been subjected?
(a) Blackbird’s.
(b) Grackle’s.
(c) Raven’s.
(d) Crow’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is the Kid?

2. What profession did the protagonist’s father’s first wife hold?

3. Which of the following tracts does the protagonist note having read?

4. How old is the protagonist when she arrives at IHES?

5. In what year was Stella Maris established?

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