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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Jijingi’s tribe?
2. Where does Lionel send his son in 1938?
3. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe the fact that humans overlook a nonhuman species capable of communicating right in their backyard?
4. Who is Rosemary in "Omphalos"?
5. In 1925, the Automatic Nanny is included on a list of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who stole the relics, as Dorothea discovers on page 252 of "Omphalos"? How does this person justify the theft?
2. According to Dana on page 329 of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," why do a person's actions matter?
3. As stated in "Omphalos," how old is the universe? How have scientists learned this information?
4. What great irony does the narrator of "The Great Silence" discuss on page 231?
5. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?
6. What does Jijingi learn about the written versus the spoken word, thanks to Reiss in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?
7. Who is Peter Silitonga in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" and what does he discover?
8. What is Remem in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What are some positive effects of this technology, as the author discovers? What are some negative effects?
9. Who is Arthur Lawson and what has he discovered? What does this discovery indicate?
10. In "The Great Silence," who was Alex, and what did he demonstrate to humans?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Internal conflicts are apparent in nearly every story in the collection. Discuss three different characters (from three different stories) who experience a conflict with themselves. Explain the nature of the conflict, how it is (or is not resolved), and how it impacts the story’s plot.
Essay Topic 2
Several characters are obsessed with the search for truth. Choose three (from three different stories) and explain the search of each. Be sure to include what truth each discovers and the impact it has on them.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast the Predictor and the prism. How are they similar, and how are they different? Support your answers with examples from the text.
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