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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dorothea in "Omphalos" feel about astronomy?
(a) It is the least relevant of the sciences.
(b) It is the science of God.
(c) It is the dullest of the sciences.
(d) It is the most interesting of the sciences.

2. With whom does a prism allow one to communicate, as stated in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Their paraself.
(b) Their periself.
(c) Their polyself.
(d) Their metaself.

3. In "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," what is the name of the narrator's ex-wife?
(a) Annie.
(b) Amelia.
(c) Abigail.
(d) Angela.

4. Where does Lionel send his son in 1938?
(a) The Beauchamp Institute.
(b) The Brighton Institute.
(c) The Bingham Institute.
(d) The Beverly Institute.

5. According to Hindu mythology, what sound created the universe?
(a) Om.
(b) Hum.
(c) Mani.
(d) Padme.

6. According to Dorothea in "Omphalos," creation falls outside of what?
(a) The stimulus chain.
(b) The rational chain.
(c) The accidental chain.
(d) The causal chain.

7. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," videologs are unable to capture what elements of an event?
(a) Its physical dimension.
(b) Its virtual dimension.
(c) Its emotional dimension.
(d) Its temporal dimension.

8. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what do many religions consider to be a pathway to the divine?
(a) Art.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Speech.
(d) Prayer.

9. What has Rosemary recently purchased in "Omphalos"?
(a) A relic of a deer femur.
(b) A relic of a primordial fungus.
(c) A relic of an abalone shell.
(d) A relic of a human tibia.

10. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe humanity’s actions regarding the near-extinction of its species?
(a) As an intentional act.
(b) As a calculated act.
(c) As a careless act.
(d) As a malicious act.

11. 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 ironic.
(b) As metaphorical.
(c) As symbolic.
(d) As hyperbolic.

12. According to Jijingi, what is vough?
(a) That which is faithful.
(b) That which is true.
(c) That which is precise.
(d) That which is right.

13. According to Mr. Dahl in "Omphalos," who donated the relics being sold in the store?
(a) Matthew Osborne.
(b) Martin Osborne.
(c) Miguel Osborne.
(d) Michael Osborne.

14. When Lionel brings Edmund home, he dedicates himself to what?
(a) Discovering a cure for Edmund's condition.
(b) Raising Edmund via machines.
(c) Weaning Edmund off machines.
(d) Creating a machine to love Edmund.

15. As "Omphalos" ends, Dorothea vows to keep trying to understand what?
(a) Why the world was created.
(b) Who stole the relics.
(c) How the universe worked.
(d) Who created the Atacama mummies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the European missionary promise to teach Jijingi?

2. What is one solution to the Great Silence, according to the narrator of the story with the same name?

3. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," Silitonga’s first experiment proved that activating a prism was enough to disturb what?

4. Scientist Peter Silitonga performed experiments using what two things to prove using a prism was enough to make two branches diverge, in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?

5. What observatory does the narrator of "The Great Silence" often ponder?

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