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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 149-179.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that the narrator appreciates about Isobel, as she tends his wounds?
(a) Her smell.
(b) Her nose.
(c) Her hair.
(d) Her soft voice.

2. What do the hosts say will happen if the narrator cannot complete his mission?
(a) They will kill him as well as Isobel and Gulliver.
(b) He will be recalled violently.
(c) They will start killing exponentially larger numbers of people.
(d) They will send a replacement.

3. What planet does the man in the holding cell say he is from?
(a) Endor.
(b) Venus.
(c) Tatooine.
(d) Pluto.

4. What book does the narrator see on Gulliver’s bed?
(a) Franny and Zooey by Salinger.
(b) Naked Lunch by Burroughs.
(c) Ham on Rye by Bukowski.
(d) War and Peace by Tolstoy.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator conclude after following Gulliver?

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

4. What does the narrator say he feels when Isobel tells him that she does not know anything about his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?

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

(see the answer key)

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