Exhalation Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Ted Chiang
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Exhalation Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Ted Chiang
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 8 in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," Ana argues that what must happen before they can decide what to do about Binary Desire?
(a) The digients must first finish school.
(b) The digients must come of age.
(c) The digients must first receive a security upgrade.
(d) The digients must first have sexual experience.

2. What is the Automatic Nanny?
(a) A virtual nursemaid.
(b) A genomic nursemaid.
(c) A mechanical nursemaid.
(d) A digital nursemaid.

3. According to Reginald Dacey of “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” what creates rational children?
(a) Empathic child-rearing.
(b) Dynamic child-rearing.
(c) Aggressive child-rearing.
(d) Rational child-rearing.

4. 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) Economic rights to the digients.
(b) Select rights to the digients.
(c) Exclusive rights to the digients.
(d) Non-exclusive rights to the digients.

5. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," videologs are unable to capture what elements of an event?
(a) Its emotional dimension.
(b) Its physical dimension.
(c) Its virtual dimension.
(d) Its temporal dimension.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second story Bashaarat tells Fuwaad?

2. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," how long will it take before their species died out?

3. What does Ana remain committed to teaching Jax at the end of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

4. What is the name of Derek’s wife in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

5. Why will the merger have such a powerful effect on the digients, as explained in Chapter 6 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

(see the answer key)

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