Exhalation Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Ted Chiang
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Exhalation Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Ted Chiang
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The Great Silence”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jax injure the robot suit at the beginning of Chapter 6 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
(a) Attempting to play basketball.
(b) Attempting a cartwheel.
(c) Attempting to lift weights.
(d) Attempting to wrestle.

2. According to Binary Desire’s pitch in Chapter 8 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," the company will fund the Neuroblast port in exchange for what?
(a) Non-exclusive rights to the digients.
(b) Economic rights to the digients.
(c) Exclusive rights to the digients.
(d) Select rights to the digients.

3. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe humanity’s actions regarding the near-extinction of its species?
(a) As a careless act.
(b) As an intentional act.
(c) As a malicious act.
(d) As a calculated act.

4. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," only what can become discouraged?
(a) A rational being.
(b) A heartless individual.
(c) An empathic individual.
(d) A freethinking entity.

5. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what word means both hope and breathing?
(a) Emission.
(b) Emanation.
(c) Exhalation.
(d) Aspiration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final message for humanity from the narrator of "The Great Silence"?

2. How does Jeremy Brauer describe digients in Chapter 9 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

3. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," how do some people ultimately react to the Predictor?

4. Which digient is quite eager to be incorporated into Binary Desire?

5. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," why are a third of Predictor users hospitalized?

(see the answer key)

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