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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bronowski say about the people who are like them in the para universe in Chapter 10?
(a) They want to stop the pump too.
(b) They are afraid of death.
(c) They think the pump is good.
(d) They are powerful.

2. Who are more advanced technologically but not necessarily smarter than Hallam and the rest in Chapter 4?
(a) Droids.
(b) Pumpers.
(c) Para men.
(d) Electrolytes.

3. Who has babies in Chapter 2a?
(a) Dua.
(b) Tritt.
(c) Foster.
(d) Odeen.

4. What does Odeen's friend suggest that he find for Dua in Chapter 2a?
(a) A new apartment.
(b) A deeper purpose.
(c) A new life.
(d) A new planet.

5. What does Bronowski advise Lamont to do in Chapter 10?
(a) Fight till death.
(b) Run away.
(c) Go live life.
(d) Write his will.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Dr. Lamont was younger, what was he writing a paper about in Chapter 2?

2. What is the language that is being deciphered in Chapter 4?

3. What does Lamont think that the electron pump can do to the sun?

4. What does Hallam theorize has different laws than our own in Chapter 2?

5. Who is the head of the Committee on Technology and the Environment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tritt do in Chapter 2c that is unusual?

2. Describe the Hard Ones.

3. What startling discovery does Lamont make about the Electron Pump in Chapter 5?

4. What is Hallam's theory about the tungsten in Chapter 2?

5. Describe Odeen.

6. Why did Dua not want to eat her fill in Chapter 2a?

7. Why is an Emotional necessary for a baby in Chapter 2a?

8. Describe the relationship of the Emotional, Parental, and Rational in having a baby.

9. What does Dr. Bronowski discover in Chapter 6?

10. Why is Tritt worried in Chapter 1c?

(see the answer keys)

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