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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The Great Silence”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 8 in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," Ana argues that what must happen before they can decide what to do about Binary Desire?
(a) The digients must first receive a security upgrade.
(b) The digients must first finish school.
(c) The digients must first have sexual experience.
(d) The digients must come of age.

2. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe the fact that humans overlook a nonhuman species capable of communicating right in their backyard?
(a) As hyperbolic.
(b) As metaphorical.
(c) As symbolic.
(d) As ironic.

3. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what does the Predictor demonstrate?
(a) That the future does not exist.
(b) That free will does not exist.
(c) That humanity does not exist.
(d) That the past does not exist.

4. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what happens at first when someone gets a Predictor?
(a) They learn how to outwit it.
(b) They find themselves unable to sleep.
(c) They play with it compulsively.
(d) They find it boring and forget about it.

5. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what does the Predictor do?
(a) Sends a signal forward in time.
(b) Sends a signal to another dimension.
(c) Sends a signal to a distant planet.
(d) Sends a signal back in time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Alex’s trainer in "The Great Silence"?

2. According to Binary Desire’s pitch in Chapter 8 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," the company will maintain what aspect of the digients?

3. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe humanity’s actions regarding the near-extinction of its species?

4. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," humans have a strong desire to do what?

5. What company offers Ana a job after the merger "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

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