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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the European missionary promise to teach Jijingi?
(a) How to speak.
(b) How to play piano.
(c) How to read.
(d) How to swim.

2. What is the name of the elderly patient Morrow is trying to scam out of money in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Jaclyn Oehlsen.
(b) Jennifer Oehlsen.
(c) Julia Oehlsen.
(d) Jessica Oehlsen.

3. What is the name of the exhibition from which “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny” is taken?
(a) “Little Warped Adults.”
(b) “Little Defective Adults.”
(c) “Little Broken Adults.”
(d) “Little Deficient Adults.”

4. According to Wilhelmina in "Omphalos," why did she steal the relics?
(a) To undermine the faith of others.
(b) To turn people away from science.
(c) To strengthen the faith of others.
(d) To turn people toward science.

5. What is one solution to the Great Silence, according to the narrator of the story with the same name?
(a) That intelligent species do not communicate.
(b) That intelligent species communicate through images.
(c) That intelligent species hide their presence.
(d) That intelligent species do not like humans.

6. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," memory software will bring about the end of what?
(a) Happy childhoods.
(b) Malleable memories.
(c) Bitter disputes.
(d) Future plans.

7. According to Dorothea at the beginning of "Omphalos," how old is the Earth?
(a) 10,912 years.
(b) 9,912 years.
(c) 8,912 years.
(d) 12,912 years.

8. What is Dorothea’s profession in "Omphalos"?
(a) Anthropologist.
(b) Curator.
(c) Archaeologist.
(d) Psychologist.

9. With whom does a prism allow one to communicate, as stated in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Their metaself.
(b) Their polyself.
(c) Their paraself.
(d) Their periself.

10. According to Dorothea at the beginning of "Omphalos," what helps scientists determine dates that are not possible to know otherwise?
(a) Carbon dating.
(b) Tree rings.
(c) Electron spin resonance.
(d) Isotopes.

11. According to the narrator of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," prisms have a limited amount of what?
(a) Ions.
(b) Protons.
(c) Quarks.
(d) Neutrinos.

12. According to Nat in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," her participation in Morrow’s schemes is replacement for what?
(a) Her former addiction.
(b) Her unhappy childhood.
(c) Her lost love.
(d) Her lack of education.

13. According to the narrator of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," where do prisms transmit information?
(a) Between branches of reality.
(b) Between temporal timelines.
(c) Between planets.
(d) Between dimensions.

14. From what does Edmund die?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Tuberculosis.

15. What is the name of Jijingi’s tribe?
(a) The Tolu.
(b) The Timba.
(c) The Type.
(d) The Tiv.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Nicole, why did her relationship with her father improve?

2. According to Lionel in “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” what has he disproven twice over?

3. What has Rosemary recently purchased in "Omphalos"?

4. On what do the ads for the Automatic Nanny focus?

5. As "Omphalos" ends, Dorothea vows to keep trying to understand what?

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