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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 Dorothea at the end of "Omphalos," what is a miracle?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) The ability to think.
(c) Free will.
(d) Emotional bonds.

2. According to the narrator of “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” what is Reginald Dacey initially inspired to create?
(a) A washing machine.
(b) A teaching machine.
(c) An adding machine.
(d) A sewing machine.

3. What is the name of the European missionary who comes to Jijingi’s village?
(a) Moseby.
(b) Modell.
(c) Mollens.
(d) Moakler.

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

5. What caused the preservation of the Atacama mummies, as revealed in "Omphalos"?
(a) A miracle from God.
(b) A superior species.
(c) Luck.
(d) The dry desert weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jijingi learn about the act of writing?

2. At the end of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," Nat realizes that what is within her grasp?

3. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what do many religions consider to be a pathway to the divine?

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

5. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe the fact that humans overlook a nonhuman species capable of communicating right in their backyard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator of "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling" learn about his relationship with his daughter thanks to her lifelog? How does this change his perception of himself as a father, as revealed on page 221?

4. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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