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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the other profession of the merchant Bashaarat in "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"?
2. While performing his risky experiment, how long does the narrator of "Exhalation" plan to work uninterrupted?
3. Which digient has been made a legal corporation, as revealed in Chapter 5 in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
4. How does Derek modify the physical appearance of his digients in Chapter 5 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
5. According to the narrator of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a digient is a digital organism designed to look like what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What company shows interest in the digients in Chapter 7 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"? What is Derek's reaction to the company's interest?
2. What advice does the narrator of "What's Expected of Us" offer the reader on page 60?
3. Who is Bashaarat? What does he sell in his store?
4. How has the digient community expanded in Chapter 2 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
5. Who are Jeremy Brauer and Frank Pearson? What does Ana learn from them in Chapter 9 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
6. Why does Fuwaad travel through the Gate of Years? What does he discover?
7. Why has the digient community shrunk in Chapter 3 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
8. Who is Jennifer Chase? What pitch does she make in Chapter 8 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
9. What are digients? What company is producing them, and who is hired to train them?
10. What happens to the three main digients in Chapter 10 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At the end of “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” Fuwaad says, “Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough” (36). Explain how his words apply to characters in three other stories.
Essay Topic 2
The role of technology is central to the stories in Exhalation. Choose three stories and discuss the role technology plays in each. Is technology a positive or negative thing?
Essay Topic 3
How is the natural world portrayed in these stories? Discuss three stories and analyze the role the natural world plays in each.
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