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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. How old does Isobel tell the narrator Andrew Martin was, psychologically?
(a) 9 years old.
(b) 16 years old.
(c) 2 years old.
(d) 12 years old.

2. What is Newton’s reaction to the narrator’s presence?
(a) He growls in his sleep.
(b) He bites him.
(c) He wags his tail and licks him.
(d) He does not notice him.

3. What does Andrew Martin say the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis does for humanity?
(a) Show people their humble origins.
(b) Provide more power.
(c) Bring humanity closer to divinity.
(d) Bring riches to people who understand it.

4. Who said that if you put your hand on a stove, a minute feels like an hour, but sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it feels like just a minute?
(a) Newton.
(b) Feynman.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Copernicus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts the discussion the narrator is having with Isobel about Andrew Martin’s relationship with his mother?

2. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?

3. Where does Isobel Martin say Andrew Martin’s psychological problems came from?

4. How does Gulliver make the narrator forget his worries?

5. Where does the narrator say Isobel is inviting him when she invites him upstairs?

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