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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters One through Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Badri say about the problem on the way to the lab?
(a) That the net has developed a black hole.
(b) That Kivrin is irretrievable.
(c) That Kivrin will be arriving back in the lab in a few minutes.
(d) Nothing.

2. Who is Kivrin?
(a) A historian.
(b) A faculty member from University of Brighton.
(c) A computer technician.
(d) A faculty member from University of Bingham.

3. What does Kivrin note in her first entry in her Doomsday Book?
(a) She's pretty sure she's off by a decade too late.
(b) She sees a marker that she was expecting to find so she knows she's in the correct time.
(c) She's pretty sure she's off by a decade too early.
(d) She can't definitively say that she's in 1320.

4. Back at Oxford, what is evident about Badri?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) He may never regain consciousness.
(c) He will be well shortly.
(d) He has a new virus never seen before.

5. What is Dunworthy entering at the opening of the novel?
(a) The faculty lounge.
(b) A viewing chamber.
(c) The Faculty cafeteria.
(d) The Dean's office.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they generally not send historians to the medieval period?

2. Why does Kivrin hide a box?

3. What village is being excavating near the University?

4. What medical preparations does Kivrin make?

5. What does Kivrin realize shortly after waking and knowing she is back in time?

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