 Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2007/e/e3/b/solution

True. A separation of

Y

into two disjoint nonempty open sets would pull back to a separation of

X

: continuity gives openness, and surjectivity gives nonemptiness. This contradicts connectedness of

X

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