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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Scientist Peter Silitonga performed experiments using what two things to prove using a prism was enough to make two branches diverge, in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Astronomy and genetics.
(b) Tree rings and genetic analysis.
(c) Weather and conception.
(d) Oceanography and marriages.

2. What is the name of the elderly patient Morrow is trying to scam out of money in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?
(a) Jennifer Oehlsen.
(b) Jessica Oehlsen.
(c) Jaclyn Oehlsen.
(d) Julia Oehlsen.

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

4. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," memory software will bring about the end of what?
(a) Bitter disputes.
(b) Malleable memories.
(c) Future plans.
(d) Happy childhoods.

5. Who is the narrator of "Omphalos"?
(a) Dorothea Murray.
(b) Dorothea Morrell.
(c) Dorothea Murphy.
(d) Dorothea Mitchell.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator at the end of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," why has he begun creating his own lifelog?

2. According to the narrator of "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," why did his wife abandon the family?

3. What is the name of Jijingi’s tribe?

4. Whose prism does Morrow want to sell to the pop singer in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom"?

5. According to Jijingi, what is vough?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are contact calls, as explained in "The Great Silence"? What do they have in common with Arecibo?

2. What does the extinction of its species mean to the narrator in "The Great Silence"?

3. Why does Lionel Dacey resurrect the Automatic Nanny?

4. What are the Atacama mummies and what do they reveal to the world, according to "Omphalos"?

5. What does Jijingi learn about the written versus the spoken word, thanks to Reiss in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?

6. Who is Arthur Lawson and what has he discovered? What does this discovery indicate?

7. As stated in "Omphalos," how old is the universe? How have scientists learned this information?

8. What is the effect of Lawson's discovery on Dr. McCullough in "Omphalos"? Why?

9. What vow does Lionel make on page 184 of "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"? What prompts this promise?

10. What is mimi in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What is vough?

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