Story of Your Life Quiz

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Why are Dr. Banks and Gary Donnelly “even” in Part 5? (from Part 5)

Dr. Banks cannot understand Gary’s conversations with the heptapods in Heptapod A: Gary cannot understand Dr. Banks’ conversations with the heptapods about why they’ve come to Earth.

Neither Dr. Banks nor Gary can understand Heptapod B.

Dr. Banks cannot understand Gary’s conversations with the heptapods about physics: Gary cannot understand Dr. Banks’ conversations with the heptapods in Heptapod B.

Neither Dr. Banks nor Gary feels it is safe or wise to trust the heptapods.

Dr. Banks compares her experience of starting to think in Heptapod B to what other experience? (from Part 5)

That of a deaf friend who started to think in sign language.

That of the heptapods, who are starting to think in human words.

That of a blind friend who started to think in Braille.

That of Gary Donnelly, who started to think in mathematical formulae.

When Dr. Banks suggests in Part 8 that her colleague is as fluent in Heptabod B as she is, what is the implication? (from Part 8)

That her colleague has also become able to have actual verbal conversations with the heptapods.

That her colleague has started to experience time in the same sort of different way as she has.

That they are being controlled and manipulated by the heptapods.

That she and her colleague are conspiring to keep the government from exploiting the heptapods.

Who is Hossner? (from Part 5)

An open-minded diplomat who thinks should whole-heartedly trust the heptapods.

A suspicious diplomat who thinks the humans should be careful about trusting the heptapods.

A suspicious diplomat who thinks the military should be careful about trusting Gary and Dr. Banks.

An aggressive diplomat who thinks that humanity should attack the heptapods.

What is the likely meaning of Dr. Banks’ references to Colonel Weber sticking to a script? (from Part 7)

Because she is beginning to experience different times in the same moment, Dr. Banks experiences Colonel Weber’s words as something that he wrote and decided upon in the future.

Because she knows that Colonel Weber is starting to experience different times in the same moment, she believes that he knows he is speaking lines as he wrote them some time ago.

Because she knows that Gary Donnelly has discovered the physics-based principles related to the heptapods’ style of communicating, she is able to hear Gary’s writing of scripted communication in Colonel Weber’s words.

Because she is beginning to experience different times in the same moment, Dr. Banks experiences Colonel Weber’s words as something that has already been decided upon – like lines in a script.