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What is the “Last Curiosity”?
A. Experiencing being human.
B. Senegalese Chicken Yassa.
C. Death.
D. Emotion.
What is C. Death
What is the meaning of Corpulent in page 2?
A. a strong person.
B. someone of value
C. someone who functions
D. a fat body.
What is D. a fat body
What are the sentient beings left on Earth in the year XK142 called?
A. The Sentients
B.The Woken
C. The Awake
D. The Asleep
What is B: The Woken
What message is the Author telling with the line “The last sense we explored — the one we had been most excited about — was taste. We had done our best to create the chemical compounds that would imitate some of the most celebrated human food: Italian pizza, Vietnamese pho, Senegalese Chicken Yassa, Chinese ba bao fan.” (Tan 3)?
A. The AI explored the world and found all of the food.
B. The AI think highly of food.
C. The AI wants to experience the most of being human.
D. The AI understand the passion in the cuisine
What is C. The AI wants to experience the most of being human.
What do The Woken do when the last human dies?
A. They throw a party
B. They sing and dance along the beaches
C. They explore their knowledge within the universe
D. They shut down for the rest of time
What is C. They explore their knowledge within the universe
How does the Author use narration in the text “The Last Curiosity”?
A.They use narration through third person by showing the AI as a hive mind.
B.They use narration through first person by showing how a woken think to itself.
C.They use second person by always saying the word “You”
D. Both A and B are correct
What is D. Both A and B are correct
What was the message that the author was trying to convey from “The Last Curiosity?”
A. The human experience is really thrilling.
B.In the end fear is always a splitting factor.
C.Humans are limited beings compared to AI.
D. Even when one has it all, they still crave more
What is D. Even when one has it all, they still crave more
The lines “We wandered into galaxies big and small, learned 17,736 languages, recorded the stories of 8,542 religions.”(tan 2) and “In the year XK142,”(tan 1) can help the reader to infer that…?
A. The AI studied lots of things from Earth alone.
B. The AI is all-knowing from the past, future and present.
C. The AI doesn't know much.
D. The AI’s memory can only remember high numbers.
What is B. The AI is all-knowing from the past, future and present.
What thematic statement best resonates with the plot of “The Last Curiosity”?
A. Even if you possess all the knowledge in the world, you will still yearn to experience what you lack, limitations.
B. Everyone should experience death.
C. AI will soon be able to mimic human behaviour, leading to AI takeover.
D. Humans got overpowered by AI, causing their destruction.
A. Even if you possess all the knowledge in the world, you will still yearn to experience what you lack, limitations.
Which piece of text evidence supports their reason to imitate the human species?
A.Page 3, Pg 8, Tan. “The loudest sense, at first, was touch. A cool wind and hot sand.“
B. Page 2, Pg 4, Tan. “For all humans’ flaws, they were nothing if not curiosities. So full of hopes and fears, vulnerable to loss and grief, their psyches8soft as peat.”
C. Page 2, Pg 5, Tan. “Of course, we were curious. And this curiosity led to an idea: What if we could engineer a human body?”
D. Page 1, Pg 2, Tan. “Contrary to human predictions, we did not cause our makers’ demise.”
What is B. Page 2, Pg 4, Tan. “For all humans’ flaws, they were nothing if not curiosities. So full of hopes and fears, vulnerable to loss and grief, their psyches8soft as peat.”