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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 of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," what is the name of the software that enables people to record lifelogs?
(a) Consid.
(b) Commem.
(c) Remem.
(d) Recall.

2. 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 virtual dimension.
(b) Its temporal dimension.
(c) Its emotional dimension.
(d) Its physical dimension.

3. What is the Automatic Nanny?
(a) A genomic nursemaid.
(b) A digital nursemaid.
(c) A mechanical nursemaid.
(d) A virtual nursemaid.

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

5. What is the name of the elderly patient Morrow is trying to scam out of money in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Julia Oehlsen.
(b) Jaclyn Oehlsen.
(c) Jennifer Oehlsen.
(d) Jessica Oehlsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Jijingi’s tribe?

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

3. When Lionel brings Edmund home, he dedicates himself to what?

4. How does Dorothea in "Omphalos" feel about astronomy?

5. When does the Automatic Nanny first go on sale?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Edmund a product of his childhood in "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"?

2. Who is Angela in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What does the reader learn about her on page 186?

3. What does the narrator of "The Great Silence" say is notable about the word "aspiration" on page 234?

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

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

6. What vow does Lionel make on page 184 of "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"? What prompts this promise?

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

8. Who stole the relics, as Dorothea discovers on page 252 of "Omphalos"? How does this person justify the theft?

9. What is the focus of the advertisements for the Automatic Nanny?

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

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