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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Quiz

David Eagleman
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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Quiz

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1)

Great Expectations: The afterlife in this story is? (from Chapters 13 through 16)

Fake.
Invisible.
Filled with flowers.
Computerized.
2)

Search: What happens at the moment of death? (from Chapters 37 through 40)

An angel comes to see you.
Atoms in your system begin to drift apart.
Your body begins to decay.
You cease to exist.
3)

Perpetuity: Where do sinners wake up in this afterlife? (from Chapters 17 through 20)

In the suburbs.
In their homes.
In a large crowd.
They do not wake up.
4)

Mirrors: Where is a person when he/she wakes up in death for the first time? (from Chapters 13 through 16)

Infront of a mirror.
In the hospital.
In bed.
In Purgatory.
5)

Distance: What is the afterlife like in this story? (from Chapters 17 through 20)

A wide open empty space.
There is no afterlife.
A beautiful land without strife.
A sad place with lots of trees.
6)

Absence: What is happening now that God is gone? (from Chapter 21 through 24)

People have stopped coming to heaven.
Wars are breaking out in the afterlife.
The angels are beginning to leave the afterlife.
Satan is taking over governance.
7)

Subjunctive: Which person will have to deal with the most versions of himself? (from Chapters 37 through 40)

A successful person.
A housewife.
A good person.
An unsuccessful person.
8)

Reversal: What happens to everyone who dies? (from Chapters 37 through 40)

They go to the afterlife.
They live in a movie theater.
They will live again.
They become insects.
9)

Absence: Where is God in this afterlife? (from Chapter 21 through 24)

There is no God.
He is on earth.
He is playing poker.
He is missing.
10)

Perpetuity: What is missing from this afterlife? (from Chapters 17 through 20)

There are no children.
All of the mothers.
All of the good people from life.
All of the sinners from life.
11)

Quantum: People in this afterlife live __________________. (from Chapters 29 through 32)

In a constant state of war.
Another person's life.
Peacefully.
Multiple lives simultaneously.
12)

Incentive: What are the people called who are unaware that death does not exist? (from Chapter 21 through 24)

Beneficiaries.
Unwanted.
Losers.
Disbelievers.
13)

The Unnatural: People begin to realize that death provides _______________. (from Chapters 17 through 20)

Depression.
Motivation.
Happiness.
Joy.
14)

Graveyard of the Gods: What else finds its way to the afterlife? (from Chapters 33 through 36)

The things man has created.
Oceans and rivers.
God's brothers and sisters.
The devil.
15)

Mirrors: What does the first death feel like? (from Chapters 13 through 16)

Like seeing yourself for the first time.
Like waking from a long sleep.
Like being hopelessly happy.
Like standing up too fast.
16)

Impulse: In this story, people are the same as? (from Chapters 29 through 32)

Computer chips.
Animals.
Pets.
Computers.
17)

Graveyard of the Gods: What populates this afterlife? (from Chapters 33 through 36)

Every species of animal and insect.
Angels and demons.
Only humans.
Ghosts and spirits.
18)

Prism: How does God solve his problem? (from Chapters 25 through 28)

He allows people to all be the same height.
He creates all people with the same intelligence.
He allows people to be all ages at once.
He creates all people at the same weight.
19)

Blueprints: Whose numbers can people see? (from Chapters 37 through 40)

Only those of their children and spouse.
Theirs and those of people they are close to.
Only their own.
The numbers of the gods.
20)

Search: Why do the cells eventually disperse again? (from Chapters 37 through 40)

They have to reunite with other cells.
They miss their freedom.
They miss the places they came from.
They get bored being human.
21)

Absence: What is happening to this afterlife? (from Chapter 21 through 24)

It is in the process of dividing.
It is having pollution problems.
It is expanding.
It is deteriorating.
22)

Ineffable: What happens to the people in a play when the play dies? (from Chapters 25 through 28)

They don't go to an afterlife until they die.
They get stuck in the life cycle of the play.
They forget about the play.
They go to the afterlife with the play.
23)

Will-o-the-Wisp: What are the viewers in the lounge not allowed to see? (from Chapter 21 through 24)

What is going on in the rest of heaven.
The other people who are in the lounge.
Failures and misery of their loved ones.
Wars and murders.
24)

Impulse: What is the afterlife like for humans? (from Chapters 29 through 32)

It is difficult and depressing.
All rainbows and bubbles.
There is no afterlife.
The afterlife is like a computer game.
25)

Great Expectations: What really happens to people when they die? (from Chapters 13 through 16)

They go to God.
They go back to earth.
They go to their created afterlife.
They get sucked into the computer.
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