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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Chapter 9 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" begins, Ana speaks with two researchers for Exponential Applicances, a company that produces what?
(a) Holograms.
(b) Household robots.
(c) Kitchen appliances.
(d) Self-driving cars.

2. To what does the narrator of "What's Expected of Us" compare the end state of many Predictor users?
(a) To an intelligent scourge.
(b) To a cognitive plague.
(c) To a logical contagion.
(d) To a rational epidemic.

3. What was the name of Alex’s trainer in "The Great Silence"?
(a) Irene Pepperberg.
(b) Ivy Pepperberg.
(c) Isabella Pepperberg.
(d) Iris Pepperberg.

4. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what do many religions consider to be a pathway to the divine?
(a) Speech.
(b) Art.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Meditation.

5. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what does the Predictor do?
(a) Sends a signal back in time.
(b) Sends a signal forward in time.
(c) Sends a signal to a distant planet.
(d) Sends a signal to another dimension.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Binary Desire produce, as revealed at the end of Chapter 7 in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

2. How does the narrator of "The Great Silence" describe the extinction of its species?

3. According to the narrator of "The Great Silence," what word means both hope and breathing?

4. According to Binary Desire’s pitch in Chapter 8 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," the company will maintain what aspect of the digients?

5. According to Ana, love means what?

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