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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. How does the narrator of "Exhalation" describe their fate on page 53?
(a) As preventable.
(b) As unavoidable.
(c) As needless.
(d) As useful.

2. What does the narrator of “Exhalation” study?
(a) Aeronautics.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Astrology.

3. What irregularity occurs on the first day of the year in "Exhalation"?
(a) The clock strikes before the crier finishes his recitation.
(b) The clock strikes at the moment the crier finishes his recitation.
(c) The clock never strikes at all.
(d) The crier finishes his recitation before the clock strikes.

4. When does the Automatic Nanny first go on sale?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1891.

5. Who or what has sponsored of the exhibition from which “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny” is taken?
(a) The National Museum of Natural History.
(b) The National Museum of Industrial History.
(c) The National Museum of Health and Medicine.
(d) The National Museum of Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what does the Predictor demonstrate?

2. Which digient has been made a legal corporation, as revealed in Chapter 5 in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

3. According to the narrator of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a digient is a digital organism designed to look like what?

4. According to the narrator of “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” what is Reginald Dacey initially inspired to create?

5. In 1925, the Automatic Nanny is included on a list of what?

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