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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the most significant of the human languages he will have to master?
(a) The language of frowns.
(b) The language of sighs.
(c) The language of eyebrows.
(d) The language of silent moments.

2. Where is Gulliver’s room in Andrew Martin’s house?
(a) In the attic.
(b) In the basement.
(c) On the first floor.
(d) In a turret.

3. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?
(a) The memory of Russell’s dying face.
(b) Nostalgia for home.
(c) The air he is breathing.
(d) The chicken Isobel cooked him.

4. What does the narrator say he has done, when he deletes Andrew Martin’s file describing his solution to the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Finished his job.
(b) Saved the universe.
(c) Saved humanity.
(d) Bought himself time.

5. What do the narrator’s hosts tell him he should be?
(a) Invisible.
(b) Patient.
(c) Malleable.
(d) Normal.

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

7. How does Isobel respond, when the narrator asks her if their marriage has been a bad one?
(a) She gets up and leaves the room.
(b) She weeps and throws a glass at him.
(c) She tells him to eat his sandwich.
(d) She starts to laugh.

8. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?
(a) It gives him the pleasure of counting.
(b) It gives him nostalgia for home.
(c) It gives him a strange, satisfying agitation.
(d) It gives him a satisfying blindness.

9. Where has Andrew Martin taught?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Columbia.

10. 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) Disappointed.
(d) Delighted.

11. What does the narrator look at, that gives him the feeling of not being troubled?
(a) A plant.
(b) The parking lot.
(c) A hillside.
(d) A crowd of people at a distance.

12. Where does Isobel go, leaving the narrator home alone?
(a) To visit her mother.
(b) To teach a class at Cambridge.
(c) The supermarket.
(d) To pick up Gulliver from school.

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

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

15. What is the title of the document in which the narrator finds Andrew Martin’s paper proving the Riemann Hypothesis?
(a) Zeta.
(b) Iota.
(c) Omega.
(d) Alpha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the narrator asks Isobel, which Isobel says has been a constant for her whole marriage to Andrew Martin?

2. What is it that moves the narrator during Daniel Russell’s dying moments?

3. What is the narrator’s tone when describing humans?

4. How does the narrator describe humans?

5. What effect does the TV have on the narrator’s pain?

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