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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. Morrow concocts a plan to sell a prism to which pop singer in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Sean Otsuka.
(b) Scott Otsuka.
(c) Steve Otsuka.
(d) Simon Otsuka.

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

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

4. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," who is Morrow?
(a) Nat's counselor.
(b) Nat's ex-boyfriend.
(c) Nat’s manager.
(d) Nat's brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," what is the name of the narrator's ex-wife?

2. What is the name of the exhibition from which “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny” is taken?

3. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what type of learners are parrots?

4. According to of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," what is the name of the software that enables people to record lifelogs?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "The Great Silence," who was Alex, and what did he demonstrate to humans?

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

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

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

6. Who is Peter Silitonga in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" and what does he discover?

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

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

9. What are the Atacama mummies and what do they reveal to the world, according to "Omphalos"?

10. What inspires Reginald Dacey to create the Automatic Nanny, as revealed on page 175?

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