Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

David Eagleman
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

David Eagleman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Great Expectations: The afterlife in this story is?
(a) Computerized.
(b) Invisible.
(c) Fake.
(d) Filled with flowers.

2. Angst: What is man's job in the afterlife?
(a) To help others die.
(b) To shop.
(c) To collect other beings.
(d) To support the universe.

3. Sum: In this afterlife a person's life is:
(a) Grouped together according to activity.
(b) Relived from bad to good.
(c) Reviewed from beginning to end.
(d) Relived from good to bad.

4. Adhesion: What happens to people when they die?
(a) They turn into horses.
(b) They become Creators.
(c) They are interrogated by a board.
(d) They become Collectors.

5. Metamorphosis: What do the people awaiting the Caller become?
(a) What they think they should be.
(b) What the living remember them as.
(c) Sad, depressed and anxious.
(d) Happy and hopeful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reins: Why did God begin to lose control of the afterlife?

2. Missing: What was created while the God couple was at war?

3. Distance: What does a man decide to ask God?

4. Circle of Friends: What do you begin to long for in this afterlife?

5. Distance: Why does God keep his distance from man?

Short Essay Questions

1. Mary: Why does God love Mary Shelley?

2. Great Expectations: In this story the people who create and program afterlives are basically selling a false product, though not intentionally. How is it that people are mistaken in their understanding of the afterlife?

3. Spirals: Why do the creatures in this afterlife think humans are so intelligent?

4. Circle of Friends: This afterlife is populated by people who you felt were important enough to remember from your life. You never meet a stranger and you have the chance to renew old bonds and friendships. However, people are not happy here. Why?

5. Egalitaire: How did the people who died feel about this afterlife?

6. Egalitaire: God created life to be good and bad, but then had a problem creating a way to judge people in the afterlife. Why is that?

7. Sum: In this afterlife all of your life experiences are grouped together. You can't experience something different until you have run through all of the experience in one chain. For example, you can't take a shower until you are in the shower experience period of the afterlife. Why would this make you long for your life on earth?

8. Adhesion: What is the adhesive (alluded to in the title) that holds humans together in this story?

9. The Unnatural: What do you choose in this afterlife that you believe will help the world?

10. Missing: Why is the dispute over God's gender irrelevant in this story?

(see the answer keys)

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