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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 210-230; Part 3, pages 231-246.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ari’s response to the thing the narrator tells him?
(a) He says that he is fucked, then.
(b) He says that he believes him.
(c) He says that he will have other experiences.
(d) He says that he wants to go there with him.

2. What is the narrator’s mission on Earth?
(a) Gather information.
(b) Destroy evidence.
(c) Enhance human mathematics.
(d) Provide regular reports about political events.

3. What breed is Andrew Martin’s dog?
(a) German shepherd.
(b) Pekinese.
(c) Basset hound.
(d) Springer spaniel.

4. What is it that impresses the narrator about Grigori Perelman?
(a) He wins enormous amounts of money for solving mathematical problems.
(b) He turns down a money prize for accomplishments in math.
(c) He donates all the money he wins from math prizes to the poor.
(d) He did not publish his stunning mathematical work during his lifetime.

5. What is the facet of prime numbers that makes them consoling to the narrator?
(a) Their mutability.
(b) Their adaptability.
(c) Their indivisibility.
(d) Their importance in crucial formulae.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the point of love is?

2. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?

3. What does Isobel’s alter ego in her novel say will happen if she solves the mystery of her marriage?

4. What is the first step the narrator takes in killing Daniel Russell?

5. What is the narrator moved by at Daniel Russell’s funeral?

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