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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 the narrator of “Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny,” Reginald Dacey originally intends his creation to be used as what?
(a) A laborsaving device.
(b) A labor-intensive device.
(c) A user-operated device.
(d) A self-regulating device.

2. What company offers Ana a job after the merger "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
(a) Mechatope.
(b) Multitope.
(c) Polytope.
(d) Semitope.

3. With whom does Data Earth announce a merger at the start of Chapter 6 of "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?
(a) Real Space.
(b) SaruMech.
(c) Polytope.
(d) Binary Desire.

4. 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 rational epidemic.
(c) To a logical contagion.
(d) To a cognitive plague.

5. What is the name of the European missionary who comes to Jijingi’s village?
(a) Mollens.
(b) Modell.
(c) Moakler.
(d) Moseby.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator of "What's Expected of Us," why has he sent this warning?

2. Who was Alex in "The Great Silence"?

3. What literary device is being employed when the narrator of "What's Expected of Us" references a “Lovecraftian horror” (59)?

4. Which representative from Binary Desire pitches a deal to the digient owners at the start of Chapter 8 in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"?

5. According to the narrator of "Exhalation," what is the reservoir of air that exists underground?

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