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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 metaself.
(d) Their polyself.

2. What did Jorge do when he became angry at his manager in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Slashed his tires.
(b) Broke his prism.
(c) Burned his coat.
(d) Punched him.

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

4. From what does Edmund die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Tuberculosis.

5. According to the narrator of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," prisms have a limited amount of what?
(a) Quarks.
(b) Ions.
(c) Neutrinos.
(d) Protons.

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

7. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what word means both hope and breathing?
(a) Aspiration.
(b) Exhalation.
(c) Emanation.
(d) Emission.

8. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," humans have a strong desire to do what?
(a) Understand themselves.
(b) Make a connection.
(c) Find love.
(d) Predict the future.

9. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," why did his wife abandon the family?
(a) To write.
(b) To travel.
(c) To paint.
(d) To act.

10. According to Dorothea at the beginning of "Omphalos," how old is the Earth?
(a) 9,912 years.
(b) 8,912 years.
(c) 10,912 years.
(d) 12,912 years.

11. After reading Lawson’s article, what has MuCullough come to doubt?
(a) That enlightenment is possible.
(b) That God cares about humanity at all.
(c) That forgiveness is attainable.
(d) That free will exists.

12. According to Nat in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," her participation in Morrow’s schemes is replacement for what?
(a) Her lost love.
(b) Her former addiction.
(c) Her lack of education.
(d) Her unhappy childhood.

13. What is notable about the Atacama mummies?
(a) They do not have bones.
(b) They do not have navels.
(c) They do not have souls.
(d) They do not have mouths.

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

15. What is Dorothea’s profession in "Omphalos"?
(a) Anthropologist.
(b) Psychologist.
(c) Archaeologist.
(d) Curator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lionel send his son in 1938?

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

3. As Dorothea waits outside the post office, she watches the construction of what cathedral?

4. According to Dorothea at the beginning of "Omphalos," what helps scientists determine dates that are not possible to know otherwise?

5. 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"?

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