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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what does the Predictor do?
(a) Sends a signal to a distant planet.
(b) Sends a signal back in time.
(c) Sends a signal forward in time.
(d) Sends a signal to another dimension.

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

3. According to Bashaarat on page 12, why did Hassan’s older self not spare him from all misfortune?
(a) To allow his younger self the experience of discovery.
(b) To allow his younger self the experience of joy.
(c) To allow his younger self the experience of fear.
(d) To allow his younger self the experience of passion.

4. As Fuwaad’s story, "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," begins, he is wandering a market in what city?
(a) Baghdad.
(b) Damascus.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Jerusalem.

5. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," what happens to the brain if it breached?
(a) It bursts forth in a stream of gold.
(b) It dissolves in a drizzle of gold.
(c) It erupts in a cloud of gold.
(d) It melts in a puddle of gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the third story Bashaarat tells Fuwaad?

2. Which digient is Ana’s favorite?

3. What is the name of the second story Bashaarat tells Fuwaad?

4. What company offers Ana a job after the merger "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

5. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," the reader should rejoice in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Exhalation," what irregularity occurs on the first day of the year?

2. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," on page 59, what happens after a person gets a Predictor?

3. What job offer does Ana receive in Chapter 7 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"? What reservations does she have? What makes her inclined to accept?

4. What does the reader learn about the beings as the story "Exhalation" opens on pages 37 and 38?

5. What happens in “The Tale of the Wife and Her Lover”?

6. What have people come to expect from digients in Chapter 5 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

7. To whom does Fuwaad address his tale on page 3? What does he say about his story?

8. What unauthorized usage troubles remaining owners in Chapter 4 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

9. What are digients? What company is producing them, and who is hired to train them?

10. What two theories currently explain the nature of memory, according to the story "Exhalation"?

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