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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer 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"?
2. What is Reginald Dacey’s profession?
3. In "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," Silitonga’s first experiment proved that activating a prism was enough to disturb what?
4. As "Omphalos" ends, Dorothea vows to keep trying to understand what?
5. What caused the preservation of the Atacama mummies, as revealed in "Omphalos"?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the end of "Omphalos," what does Dorothea vow to continue to do?
2. In "The Great Silence," who was Alex, and what did he demonstrate to humans?
3. Who is Peter Silitonga in "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" and what does he discover?
4. What does Jijingi learn about the written versus the spoken word, thanks to Reiss in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"?
5. How is Edmund a product of his childhood in "Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny"?
6. What is the Fermi Paradox? What are two solutions that attempt to solve it?
7. According to Dana on page 329 of "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom," why do a person's actions matter?
8. Who is Angela in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What does the reader learn about her on page 186?
9. What is the focus of the advertisements for the Automatic Nanny?
10. What is mimi in "The Truth of Facts, the Truth of Feeling"? What is vough?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of this collection. How is Exhalation an appropriate title for this collection of stories? How does the title reflect the collection’s themes?
Essay Topic 2
What do you think the future has in store for Jax after the close of “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”? Predict his future based on the thoughts and actions of others in the story.
Essay Topic 3
At the end of “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” Fuwaad says, “Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough” (36). Explain how his words apply to characters in three other stories.
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