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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 IV end?
(a) “Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.”
(b) “Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.”
(c) “I don’t know. Yes. You will see me.”
(d) “Salvaged out of a bleak sea of the incomputable. Time’s up.”

2. With whom did the protagonist work on violin harmonics?
(a) Ida Haendel.
(b) Carleen Hutchins.
(c) Quincy Whitney.
(d) Batya MacAdam-Somer.

3. What color does the protagonist suggest she wear to discuss dreams?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

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

5. How many books does the protagonist estimate having read in her lifetime?
(a) 100.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the interlocutor’s daughter?

2. In what situation does the protagonist note having been in restraints?

3. How old does the protagonist report being when she realized other people genuinely forget things?

4. How old does the protagonist note being when she first attempted smoking?

5. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to regard as a fellow student?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist respond to being asked if she is a sex worker?

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

3. What “old saw in racing” does the protagonist report (165-66)?

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

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

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

7. What purpose does the protagonist posit for her dominant hallucination from early in her experience with it?

8. What reason does the protagonist give for not pursuing many romantic relationships?

9. Why does the protagonist note she was less disturbed at their father’s death than her brother was?

10. Why does the protagonist indicate people prefer the idea of fate to the idea of chance?

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