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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 did Jorge do when he became angry at his manager in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?

2. What has Rosemary recently purchased in "Omphalos"?

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

4. According to Nicole, why did her relationship with her father improve?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who is Arthur Lawson and what has he discovered? What does this discovery indicate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Science fiction is fiction that is based on imagined advances in science and/or technology. Choose three stories and explain how each fits this definition.

Essay Topic 2

Internal conflicts are apparent in nearly every story in the collection. Discuss three different characters (from three different stories) who experience a conflict with themselves. Explain the nature of the conflict, how it is (or is not resolved), and how it impacts the story’s plot.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of this collection. How is Exhalation an appropriate title for this collection of stories? How does the title reflect the collection’s themes?

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