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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. With which of the following does VI end?
(a) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”
(b) “Oh. Yes. Of course.”
(c) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”
(d) “Yes. I’m sorry.”

2. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?
(a) Bremerton.
(b) Poulsbo.
(c) Vashon.
(d) Bainbridge.

3. What mathematician does the protagonist note had been working on gauge theory?
(a) Levi.
(b) Carhartt.
(c) Lee.
(d) Agolde.

4. Which of the following made the protagonist’s violin?
(a) Da Salo.
(b) Stradivari.
(c) Amati.
(d) Guarneri.

5. What is the title of the chapter in Spengler that attracts the protagonist’s attention?
(a) “Enumerating Infinity.”
(b) “The Meaning of Numbers.”
(c) “The Idea of Zero.”
(d) “Rise of the South.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books a day, on average, does the protagonist report having read?

2. How far from ground zero at a nuclear test site had the protagonist’s father been?

3. Which of the following do the interlocutor and his wife do?

4. Which of the following does the protagonist note as a candidate for a root theory of mathematics?

5. To which of the following does the protagonist compare herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the interlocutor posit should be the defining image of the age in which he lives?

2. What is the subject of the paper the protagonist sent Grothendieck in advance of arriving at IHES (136)?

3. For what reason does the novel note the protagonist had previously been placed on suicide watch?

4. Why does the protagonist assert she would not have been a good counselor?

5. Why does the protagonist object to being put on antipsychotic medication?

6. How does the interlocutor describe his daughter?

7. What hope in solving topological problems does the protagonist note?

8. What does the protagonist cite as her chief gripe with mental health professionals?

9. How does the protagonist report initially attempting to distract herself from her hallucinations?

10. Why, per the protagonist, do falling climbers feel peace?

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