Final exam: The Content Machine
Ten questions, seven to pass. This tests whether the course's key ideas actually stuck — not trivia, the concepts that matter. Pass and you bank 100 XP.
1. What are the six stages of the Bedrock Loop, in order?
2. What is 'bedrock'?
Why: Everything else is extracted from it — the clips, cards, and threads all come out of this one piece.
3. What are 'pebbles'?
Why: Clips, cards, threads, tips — each one native to its platform, all crushed out of the week’s bedrock.
4. In the Survey stage, what are 'territories'?
Why: Bedrock is chosen inside them, never outside — the territories are the fence around everything you make.
5. What is the 'comment mine'?
Why: Repeated questions are bedrock topics — the mine is where next week’s bedrock announces itself.
6. Why should bedrock be planned with splintering in mind?
Why: Quotable lines and standalone sections extract cleanly — a bedrock that ignores splintering gives you mush to crush.
7. What does 'native' mean in the Scatter stage?
Why: Same ideas, native shapes, never copy-pasted.
8. What is the 1-to-12 rule?
Why: Fewer means under-extracting.
9. In the Listen stage, what are comments treated as?
Why: What the audience asks about is what you make next.
10. What is an 'echo'?
Why: Expanding a reply into a post, a post into bedrock — it’s the loop’s compounding mechanism.