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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 does the narrator find distinguished about Grigori Perelman?
(a) His mathematical genius.
(b) His humanitarian career.
(c) He passed up a million dollar prize for solving a mathematical problem.
(d) His mathematical certainty.

2. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Concerned.
(c) Delighted.
(d) Disappointed.

3. What does the narrator say about Andrew Martin, when he is being interrogated?
(a) That he is above the law.
(b) That he is having an affair with his student.
(c) That he is the smartest human on Earth.
(d) That he has just solved the Riemann Hypothesis.

4. What are the narrator’s feelings about rain?
(a) It soothes him.
(b) He hates it.
(c) It silences him.
(d) It makes him nostalgic.

5. What does the narrator say he has for the first time after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) A personal sentiment.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) Remorse.
(d) A tear in his eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the narrator after Daniel Russell slaps him on the back?

2. Why does the narrator hang up on Andrew Martin’s mother?

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

4. Where does the narrator follow Gulliver to, when he sees him during school hours?

5. What magazine provides the narrator with the basics of English?

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