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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. Where does Lionel send his son in 1938?
2. What is the name of the elderly patient Morrow is trying to scam out of money in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
3. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," why did his wife abandon the family?
4. What is the name of the European missionary who comes to Jijingi’s village?
5. According to Dorothea in "Omphalos," creation falls outside of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the effect of Lawson's discovery on Dr. McCullough in "Omphalos"? Why?
2. As stated in "Omphalos," how old is the universe? How have scientists learned this information?
3. Who is Scott Otsuka in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," and what does Morrow plan regarding him?
4. What vow does Lionel make on page 184 of "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"? What prompts this promise?
5. How is Edmund a product of his childhood in "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"?
6. Who is Peter Silitonga in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" and what does he discover?
7. Who stole the relics, as Dorothea discovers on page 252 of "Omphalos"? How does this person justify the theft?
8. What does Jijingi learn about the written versus the spoken word, thanks to Reiss in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?
9. At the end of "Omphalos," what does Dorothea vow to continue to do?
10. In "The Great Silence," who was Alex, and what did he demonstrate to humans?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do you think the future has in store for Jax after the close of “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”? Predict his future based on the thoughts and actions of others in the story.
Essay Topic 2
Many characters in this collection highlight the idea the past is never truly past. Choose three characters (from three different stories) and explain how each illustrates this idea.
Essay Topic 3
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” is a frame narrative: it is a story within a story. Explain how this story fits the definition of a frame narrative, and explain why this technique is particularly effective for this story.
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