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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 does the European missionary promise to teach Jijingi?
2. According to the narrator of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," where do prisms transmit information?
3. Who is Rosemary in "Omphalos"?
4. What did Jorge do when he became angry at his manager in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
5. From what does Edmund die?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Remem in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What are some positive effects of this technology, as the author discovers? What are some negative effects?
2. What is mimi in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What is vough?
3. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?
4. Who is Moseby? What does he promise to teach Jijingi in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?
5. What is the focus of the advertisements for the Automatic Nanny?
6. Who is Peter Silitonga in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" and what does he discover?
7. Who is Morrow in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"? Who is Jessica Oehlsen and what does Morrow plan for her?
8. What is the Fermi Paradox? What are two solutions that attempt to solve it?
9. What are the Atacama mummies and what do they reveal to the world, according to "Omphalos"?
10. What does Jijingi learn about the written versus the spoken word, thanks to Reiss in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the Predictor and the prism. How are they similar, and how are they different? Support your answers with examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Regret is a major theme of the collection. Choose three characters (from three different stories) who illustrate this theme. Explain why each character experiences regret, how this regret is (or is not) resolved, and evaluate what the author is trying to say about this subject.
Essay Topic 3
The role of speech is central to several stories in the collection. Choose two and explain how speech is central not only to the story’s plot but also to its themes.
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