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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. Which of the following, per the novel, carries information between quarks?
(a) Photon.
(b) Boson.
(c) Meson.
(d) Gluon.

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

3. To which of the following does the protagonist compare the interlocutor?
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Milton.
(c) Malory.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. With which of the following works does the protagonist engage?
(a) Grundlagen.
(b) Principia.
(c) Psychohistory.
(d) Mathematica.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which personality assessment had the protagonist sat for in the past?

2. In what year did the protagonist’s family move to Wartburg?

3. In which of the following thinkers was the protagonist’s father interested?

4. What case number is assigned to the protagonist?

5. Which of the following mathematicians does the protagonist esteem?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had the protagonist hoped to get into the Coletta facility?

2. What work did the protagonist’s father do after the use of atomic weapons in World War II?

3. How does the protagonist know that her fellow inpatients know she does not belong among them?

4. How does the protagonist explain her affinity for mental health inpatients?

5. How does the protagonist explain Grothendieck’s activism?

6. What does the protagonist cite as the incident inciting her seeking admission at Stella Maris?

7. Why did the protagonist’s father hide his first marriage?

8. Why does the protagonist report not investing her inheritance?

9. Why does the protagonist consider music an exception to the rules governing other things?

10. What is the significance of the Fields Medal?

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