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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. What is one solution to the Great Silence, according to the narrator of the story with the same name?
(a) That intelligent species hide their presence.
(b) That intelligent species do not like humans.
(c) That intelligent species communicate through images.
(d) That intelligent species do not communicate.

2. Following his son’s death, what does Lionel do?
(a) Donate the remaining Nannies.
(b) Destroy the remaining Nannies.
(c) Sell the remaining Nannies.
(d) Consign the remaining Nannies.

3. What does Dana realize at the end of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) She was fully to blame for Vinessa's troubled life.
(b) She was not to blame for Vinessa's troubled life.
(c) She was slightly to blame for Vinessa's troubled life.
(d) She was mostly to blame for Vinessa's troubled life.

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

5. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," Dana runs a support group for people struggling with what issue?
(a) Eating disorders.
(b) Prism obsession.
(c) Opiate addiction.
(d) Bipolar depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what word means both hope and breathing?

2. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what do parrots use to get another birds attention?

3. How does Jijingi describe words?

4. Whose prism does Morrow want to sell to the pop singer in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?

5. According to the narrator of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," prisms have a limited amount of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. As stated in "Omphalos," how old is the universe? How have scientists learned this information?

2. What is the effect of Lawson's discovery on Dr. McCullough in "Omphalos"? Why?

3. What great irony does the narrator of "The Great Silence" discuss on page 231?

4. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?

5. Who is Moseby? What does he promise to teach Jijingi in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?

6. What does the extinction of its species mean to the narrator in "The Great Silence"?

7. Who is Scott Otsuka in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," and what does Morrow plan regarding him?

8. Who is Vinessa in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"? What does Dana learn about her at the end of the story?

9. According to Dana on page 329 of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," why do a person's actions matter?

10. What does Jijingi learn about the written versus the spoken word, thanks to Reiss in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?

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