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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 authors does the protagonist note having read?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Spinoza.
(c) Hume.
(d) Locke.

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

3. To which of the following does the protagonist compare the Manhattan Project?
(a) Gales.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Ice.
(d) Fire.

4. In which state does the protagonist have paternal relatives?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) New Hampshire.

5. Which of the following pieces does the protagonist first play on her violin?
(a) Wagner’s Traume.
(b) Mozart’s Sonata in e minor.
(c) Bach’s Chaconne in d minor.
(d) Brahms’s Hungarian Dance 5 in g minor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following astronomers does the protagonist report admiring?

2. With which of the following thinkers’ ideas does the protagonist grapple?

3. What epistemological position does the protagonist claim?

4. In what year was Stella Maris established?

5. What group did Grothendieck lead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What vice does the protagonist admit to having?

2. What is the two-slit experiment?

3. What compelled the protagonist’s family to move to Wartburg?

4. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

5. Why does the interlocutor remark that it is an oddity to claim Oppenheimer was stupid?

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

7. How is the protagonist described upon admission to Stella Maris?

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

9. How does the protagonist purpose to protect the violin she buys?

10. In what capacity is the protagonist initially assumed to work at IHES?

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