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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 50-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say human news is about?
(a) Humans.
(b) War.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Mathematics.

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

4. What does the narrator say makes events important to people?
(a) Their spiritual importance.
(b) Their mathematical importance.
(c) Their proximity to them.
(d) Their distance from them.

5. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?
(a) Playboy.
(b) Wired.
(c) Cosmopolitan.
(d) Ladies Home Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the “emergency exit for humans” (42)?

2. What is the first question the narrator feels he has given the right answer to?

3. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?

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

5. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?

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