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

2. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," memory software will bring about the end of what?
(a) Happy childhoods.
(b) Bitter disputes.
(c) Malleable memories.
(d) Future plans.

3. According to the narrator at the end of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," why has he begun creating his own lifelog?
(a) To make sure his memories align with the truth.
(b) To make sure he remembers happy things.
(c) To make sure he never forgets anything.
(d) To make sure he can analyze his actions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," Dana runs a support group for people struggling with what issue?

2. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," Silitonga’s first experiment proved that activating a prism was enough to disturb what?

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

4. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe the extinction of its species?

5. Where does Lionel send his son in 1938?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?

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

3. As explained in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," what is a prism? What does it allow the user to do?

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

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

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

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

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

9. At the end of "Omphalos," what does Dorothea vow to continue to do?

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

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