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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 mimi?
(a) That which is right.
(b) That which is true.
(c) That which is faithful.
(d) That which is precise.

2. In 1925, the Automatic Nanny is included on a list of what?
(a) Mishaps of Science.
(b) Failures of Science.
(c) Catastrophes of Science.
(d) Disasters of Science.

3. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what do many religions consider to be a pathway to the divine?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Art.
(c) Speech.
(d) Meditation.

4. What is Dorothea’s profession in "Omphalos"?
(a) Anthropologist.
(b) Curator.
(c) Archaeologist.
(d) Psychologist.

5. Where does Lionel send his son in 1938?
(a) The Beverly Institute.
(b) The Beauchamp Institute.
(c) The Brighton Institute.
(d) The Bingham Institute.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who or what has sponsored of the exhibition from which “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny” is taken?

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

4. According to Mr. Dahl in "Omphalos," who donated the relics being sold in the store?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the Automatic Nanny hits the market in 1901? Why does it ultimately fail?

2. Who is Morrow in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"? Who is Jessica Oehlsen and what does Morrow plan for her?

3. What is Remem in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What are some positive effects of this technology, as the author discovers? What are some negative effects?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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