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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. To which honkytonk does the protagonist note having gone?
(a) The Moonlight Diner.
(b) Tootsies Orchid Lounge.
(c) The Broken Spoke.
(d) Gruene Hall.

2. How old does the protagonist report being when she learned to read?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. Which of the following does the protagonist claim to regard as a fellow student?
(a) Husserl.
(b) Plato.
(c) Wittgenstein.
(d) Heidegger.

4. Which of the following do the interlocutor and his wife do?
(a) Go bowling.
(b) Play tennis.
(c) Go rowing.
(d) Play golf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the interlocutor’s daughter?

2. What scientist does the protagonist note was troubled by the unconscious?

3. Which of the following is noted as a friend of the protagonist’s father?

4. Which mathematician does the protagonist reference in relation to ones and zeroes?

5. What thinker does the protagonist note is necessary to the discussion of numbers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What doubt about the protagonist does the interlocutor voice?

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

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

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

6. How does the interlocutor explain the proscription against potentially entangling items at Stella Maris?

7. How does the interlocutor describe his daughter?

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

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

10. Why does the protagonist distrust her doctoral advisor?

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