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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. According to of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," what is the name of the software that enables people to record lifelogs?
2. Who fatally shoots Morrow in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
3. What does Jijingi learn about the act of writing?
4. What does Dana realize at the end of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
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 Angela in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What does the reader learn about her on page 186?
2. 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?
3. What happens after the Automatic Nanny hits the market in 1901? Why does it ultimately fail?
4. As explained in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," what is a prism? What does it allow the user to do?
5. Who is Peter Silitonga in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" and what does he discover?
6. Who stole the relics, as Dorothea discovers on page 252 of "Omphalos"? How does this person justify the theft?
7. Who is Scott Otsuka in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," and what does Morrow plan regarding him?
8. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?
9. How is Edmund a product of his childhood in "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"?
10. What does the extinction of its species mean to the narrator in "The Great Silence"?
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
How is the prism found in “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” symbolic of the themes presented throughout the entire collection? Choose three other stories and explain.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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