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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Omphalos”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Binary Desire’s pitch in Chapter 8 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," the digients will never be subjected to what?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Coercion.
(c) Vilification.
(d) Abuse.

2. What does Jijingi learn about the act of writing?
(a) Writing is hoping.
(b) Writing is breathing.
(c) Writing is thinking.
(d) Writing is doing.

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

4. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe the extinction of its species?
(a) As the great darkness.
(b) As the silencing of their voice.
(c) As the end of the world.
(d) As the loss of beauty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," what exists at the edge of the world?

3. What does Ana remain committed to teaching Jax at the end of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

4. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," what does the inscription hypothesis fail to explain?

5. As the story "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" opens, what company has an opening that is perfect for Ana?

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