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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Daniel Russell greet the narrator?
(a) As a dirty rascal.
(b) As a pariah.
(c) As the savior of mankind.
(d) As the second coming.

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

3. 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) Concerned.
(b) Disappointed.
(c) Delighted.
(d) Relieved.

4. Which college of Cambridge University does Andrew Martin teach at?
(a) Emmanuel College.
(b) Trinity College.
(c) Downing College.
(d) Fitzwilliam College.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the effect music has on him?

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

3. How long does Isobel say it has been since Andrew Martin liked Gulliver?

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

5. What is it that makes the narrator sick the day after killing Daniel Russell?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that Andrew Martin’s discovery needs to be erased?

2. How does Andrew Martin characterize his discovery in the introduction the narrator reads?

3. What is happening in the first scene the narrator describes in his narrative?

4. What happens to the narrator for the first time in his life when Isobel gives him a sandwich?

5. What is the importance of prime numbers for the narrator?

6. What happens when the narrator calls Andrew Martin’s mother?

7. What makes the narrator’s narrative so funny?

8. How does the narrator define beauty for humans?

9. How does the narrator ultimately get himself out of prison?

10. How does the narrator characterize life in the world he comes from?

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