Question

Read this excerpt from "Exhalation":

I would then be able to dissect my own brain.
The very idea must sound like pure madness, I know....
But I could not ask anyone else to risk themselves for the
sake of anatomical inquiry, and because I wished to
conduct the dissection myself, I would not be satisfied by
merely being the passive subject of such an operation.
Auto-dissection was the only option.
Which word best describes the narrator's tone regarding his experiment in the
excerpt?


A. Apprehensive

B. Businesslike

C. Rebellious

D. Optimistic

Answer 1

The word that best describes the narrator's tone regarding his experiment in the excerpt is businesslike. (Option B)

Step-by-step explanation:

Epistolary in nature, Ted Chiang’s sci-fi short story “Exhalation,” talks about the scientist who dissects his own brain and discovers that it operates because of the "movement of air" through gold leaves.

Through his hypothesis, he understands that when the "atmospheric pressure" is the "same below and above" the ground, then the entire computation and time will itself cease.

He also keeps thinking of how equilibrium is the destiny of all known universes and about the possible existence of all the other universes. He finally realizes that the beauty of life and civilization is a miracle.