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What factor MOST contributed to the decline of electric vehicles in the early twentieth century?

• the scalability of gasoline-powered vehicles

• the cultural perception of EVs as “women’s cars”

• the absence of long-distance travel infrastructure

• the discovery of new reserves of crude oil

• the invention of the internal combustion engine

The rhythm of Carl Orff's “O Fortuna” suggests that fate is

• fair

• slow

• controllable

• unpredictable

• inevitable

What makes the head of a match red?

• selenium

• phosphorous

• sulfur

• tin

• arsenic

What folk music tradition does Enya’s “Caribbean Blue” use?

• Jamaican

• Appalachian

• Celtic

• Russian

• Italian

Which of the following religions LEAST influenced the vision of Jigoku?

• Confucianism

• Buddhism

• Daoism

• Zoroastrianism

• Shintoism

Which of the following divination techniques uses pareidolia?

• I Ching

• palm-reading

• jiaobei

• hydromancy

• astrology

Come with me and you'll be In a world of pure imagination Reach out, touch what was once Just in your imagination What does “pure imagination” mean in these lyrics?

• focused on hard facts

• untouched by reality

• based on past memories

• inspired by someone else

• found in dreams

The game designers of Overwatch designed a world in which

• major future crises have been resolved

• humanity and AI exist in apocalyptic tension

• only preindustrial technology is available

• corporations govern global geopolitics

• scholarship has fallen into a new “dark age”

In 2045, a course on “Deepfake Literature” would MOST likely cover

• the Shakespeare authorship question

• legal frameworks for addressing AI-assisted fraud

• global conspiracy theories and the controversies surrounding them

• AI-generated works emulating the style of canonical authors

• the works of writers who used pen names and pseudonyms

The speech “They'll never take our freedom” from Braveheart wants to inspire people to

• run away

• fight

• hide

• vote

• stay quiet