Einstein's Dreams Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Alan Lightman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Einstein's Dreams Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Alan Lightman
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 26 April, 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While walking with Einstein, during the Interlude, what does Besso wonder about?
(a) Einstein's plans for the future.
(b) Why he is not the man Einstein is.
(c) What his wife has cooked for dinner.
(d) Why he ever started this friendship with Einstein.

2. What is time compared to in the "16 April 1905" dream?
(a) A cocoon.
(b) A tree with leaves turning due to fall.
(c) A flow of water.
(d) A dream.

3. According to the narrator, what did scientists discover in the past?
(a) That time moves faster the farther one is from the center of the earth.
(b) That time never forgets its past.
(c) That time has "blips" that stop all things living.
(d) That time moves slower the farther one is from the center of the earth.

4. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?
(a) A world in which life and death balance.
(b) A world in which cause and effect balance.
(c) A world in which cause and effect are erratic.
(d) A world in which life and death do not balance.

5. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?
(a) Forgiving.
(b) Impulse.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do those of religious faith see time as evidence of?

2. According to the narrator, what do parents treasure given they think they may not witness it again?

3. According to the narrator, without commitment there is what?

4. Where is the young man's theory of time to be mailed?

5. What month does the Swiss and English couple meet to vacation together?

(see the answer key)

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