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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Binary Desire’s pitch in Chapter 8 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," the digients will never be subjected to what?
(a) Abuse.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Vilification.
(d) Coercion.

2. On what do the ads for the Automatic Nanny focus?
(a) The modern life.
(b) Disreputable nannies.
(c) The affordable cost.
(d) Improved children.

3. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what begins to sink in after one has had a Predictor for a few days?
(a) The repercussions of a spontaneous future.
(b) The repercussions of an unchangeable future.
(c) The repercussions of a hypothetical future.
(d) The repercussions of a limitless future.

4. According to the narrator of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a digient is a digital organism designed to look like what?
(a) Popular cartoons.
(b) Famous celebrities.
(c) Historical figures.
(d) Anthropomorphic animals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," what does the Predictor demonstrate?

2. According to Jijingi, what is mimi?

3. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," it is impossible to do what?

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

5. How does the narrator of "Exhalation" describe their fate on page 53?

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