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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 180-209.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?
(a) Newton barking.
(b) The postman knocking.
(c) The phone ringing.
(d) Gulliver coming home.

2. What does the narrator say gives him the closest approximation of space?
(a) Tchaikovsky’s concertos.
(b) Debussy’s Clair de Lune.
(c) Palestrina’s psalms.
(d) Mozart’s Requiem.

3. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?
(a) 1,253 pages.
(b) 251 pages.
(c) 917 pages.
(d) 469 pages.

4. What will the consequence be, if the narrator surrenders his gifts?
(a) He will never be able to return home.
(b) He will have to start again as a human child.
(c) He will start to decompose in Earth’s atmosphere.
(d) He will never become fully human.

5. How does Gulliver answer when the narrator asks what he was doing at the train tracks?
(a) He laments.
(b) He protests.
(c) He groans.
(d) He accuses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isobel say about the narrator’s heart?

2. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?

3. What starts to astonish the narrator after he becomes human?

4. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?

5. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?

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