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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. To which of the following does Liz compare Anwar?
2. In which of the following cities does Kemal note a Babylon death occurs?
3. Which of the following percentages does Anwar note voted against Issyk-Kulistan’s independence?
4. Which of the following books does the Toymaker note was present when he was living with his uncle Albert?
5. The comment that “it’s not so cosy now that the outside world has smashed the window and climbed in, ransacked the drawers, and stirred everything around” (186) offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What factors are noted in the decline of higher education prior to the novel?
2. How does the Gnome characterize the economic scheme of Issyk-Kulistan?
3. What priorities does the Toymaker note having after his date and assignation with Dorothy?
4. What reason does Liz note that a social engineering program aimed at reducing drinking in pubs failed?
5. What reasons does MacDonald give for disinterest in creating artificial consciousness?
6. How does the Toymaker outfit himself for his date with Dorothy?
7. What reasons does Anwar note for pitying his fellow inmates in Saughton (186)?
8. What reason does Dorothy give for avoiding a weekday assignation with Liz (272)?
9. How does Liz characterize “the besetting cognitive error of any senior officer confronted by too much data” (217)?
10. What reasons does the Toymaker note for determining to research steak consumption in Scotland?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the novel, there is a tendency of characters to sit “in what used to be the driver’s seat” of automated buses. What significance does the gesture have, and how is it made evident?
Essay Topic 2
Explicate the irony of the Toymaker’s assertion that he and the Operation are “going to exercise the prerogative of mercy” with regards to Stuart Jackson (35).
Essay Topic 3
Kemal cites a programmers’ saying: “If we understand how we do it, it isn’t artificial intelligence anymore” (176). From experience, is the saying correct or incorrect? What in experience suggests as much? How does it do so?
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