Exhalation Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Ted Chiang
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Exhalation Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Ted Chiang
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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 the narrator of "Exhalation," what exists inside their arms?
(a) Gears and trains.
(b) Rods and pistons.
(c) Axles and bearings.
(d) Splines and fasteners.

2. 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) Exclusive rights to the digients.
(b) Select rights to the digients.
(c) Non-exclusive rights to the digients.
(d) Economic rights to the digients.

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

4. What does Binary Desire produce, as revealed at the end of Chapter 7 in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
(a) Sex dolls.
(b) Virtual performers.
(c) Crash-test dummies.
(d) Live mannequins.

5. How does Jeremy Brauer describe digients in Chapter 9 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
(a) As deal creators.
(b) As deal breakers.
(c) As deal shakers.
(d) As deal makers.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Data Earth announce a merger at the start of Chapter 6 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

2. To what does the narrator of "What's Expected of Us" compare the end state of many Predictor users?

3. How does Derek modify the physical appearance of his digients in Chapter 5 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

4. What is the name of the exhibition from which “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny” is taken?

5. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," what obvious proposition has been accepted for most of history?

(see the answer key)

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