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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 20 May, 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what are people in a world of only one day?
(a) Saddened.
(b) Accepting.
(c) Equal.
(d) Excited.

2. Why do some people, in the world described in the "29 May 1905" dream, refuse to look out their windows?
(a) Because they are afraid to look upon the clock tower on Kramgasse.
(b) Because they are mad that others are traveling faster than they are.
(c) Because they are afraid that others are moving slower than they are.
(d) Because they live in complete solitude and what no interference.

3. How many pages is the young man's theory of time?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty.

4. Who has Besso received a letter from announcing a visit?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His sister.
(c) His brother.
(d) His father.

5. According to the "8 May 1905" dream, what is the date the world will end?
(a) 12 December 2012.
(b) 26 September 1907.
(c) 9 June 1905.
(d) 9 May 1906.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, in the world described in the "22 May 1905" dream, what happens to people who have not had "their vision"?

2. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?

3. For the town described in the "4 May 1905" dream, times passes, but what happens?

4. In the Prologue, how many times does the clock tower chime?

5. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?

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