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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Binary Desire’s pitch in Chapter 8 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," the company will fund the Neuroblast port in exchange for what?
(a) Non-exclusive rights to the digients.
(b) Select rights to the digients.
(c) Economic rights to the digients.
(d) Exclusive rights to the digients.

2. According to Ana, love means what?
(a) Abandonment.
(b) Capitulation.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Sacrifice.

3. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," the reader should rejoice in what?
(a) The peace of mind.
(b) The beauty of nature.
(c) The laws of physics.
(d) The miracle of life.

4. What is Reginald Dacey’s profession?
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Astronomer.
(c) Architect.
(d) Engineer.

5. What literary device is being employed when the narrator of "What's Expected of Us" references a “Lovecraftian horror” (59)?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Irony.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," the knowledge of the Predictor does what to the human logical system?

3. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," it is impossible to do what?

4. According to Reginald Dacey of “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” what creates rational children?

5. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what is the end state of many Predictor users?

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