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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, pages 97-117.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What assumption in his audience does the narrator seek to overturn?
(a) That humanity is meaningless.
(b) That humanity will save the universe.
(c) That humanity deserves saving.
(d) That humanity teaches kindness and sympathy.

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

3. How does the narrator characterize the pattern Riemann discovered for the first hundred thousand or so prime numbers?
(a) Chaotic and mystifying.
(b) Random and bewildering.
(c) Beautiful and clean.
(d) Regular and scientific.

4. What are blue lights a sign of, in the narrator’s experience?
(a) Relief.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Pain.

5. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?
(a) He is exhausted for the energy of killing Russell.
(b) He feels pain in his shoulder.
(c) His face becomes his own.
(d) He briefly blacks out.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long is Isobel Martin’s book The Dark Ages?

3. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?

4. What is the narrator honest about with Daniel Russell?

5. How does the narrator characterize dogs?

(see the answer key)

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