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

2. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," what is the point behind memory software?
(a) To remember the past.
(b) To admit you were wrong.
(c) To improve the future.
(d) To know you were right.

3. According to Jijingi, what is mimi?
(a) That which is faithful.
(b) That which is precise.
(c) That which is true.
(d) That which is right.

4. What has Rosemary recently purchased in "Omphalos"?
(a) A relic of a primordial fungus.
(b) A relic of a deer femur.
(c) A relic of a human tibia.
(d) A relic of an abalone shell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the Automatic Nanny first go on sale?

2. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," videologs are unable to capture what elements of an event?

3. In "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," what is the name of the narrator's ex-wife?

4. How does Dorothea in "Omphalos" feel about astronomy?

5. What is the name of the chief in Jijingi’s village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Atacama mummies and what do they reveal to the world, according to "Omphalos"?

2. What great irony does the narrator of "The Great Silence" discuss on page 231?

3. In "The Great Silence," who was Alex, and what did he demonstrate to humans?

4. What inspires Reginald Dacey to create the Automatic Nanny, as revealed on page 175?

5. How is Edmund a product of his childhood in "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"?

6. According to Dana on page 329 of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," why do a person's actions matter?

7. What are contact calls, as explained in "The Great Silence"? What do they have in common with Arecibo?

8. Who is Morrow in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"? Who is Jessica Oehlsen and what does Morrow plan for her?

9. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?

10. Who is Scott Otsuka in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," and what does Morrow plan regarding him?

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