Einstein's Dreams Quiz | Eight 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 | Eight Week Quiz A

Alan Lightman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue through 24 April, 1905.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the physical body?
(a) A mass of organisms that pull in different directions at all times.
(b) A thing to be obeyed, not ordered.
(c) A thing to be ordered, not obeyed.
(d) A mass of organisms that pull in only one direction.

2. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?
(a) A sphere.
(b) A circle.
(c) An arc.
(d) An ellipse.

3. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?
(a) Only happened once before.
(b) Never happened before.
(c) Happened a hundred times before.
(d) Happened a million times before.

4. According to the narrator, what is the room full of?
(a) Too many hopes to account for.
(b) Practical ideas.
(c) Dreams and desires.
(d) Fluttering beliefs of accomplishment.

5. According to the narrator, why do "cursed citizens wrestle with their bedsheets"?
(a) Because they feel torn by time.
(b) Because they have sinned.
(c) Because their mistakes will be repeated.
(d) Because their lives are in shambles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say people transported to the past fear?

2. What does the European Union of 1979 depend upon?

3. How many times do the St. Vincent's Cathedral bells chime at the end of the 24 April 1905 dream?

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

5. According to the narrator, people in their correct time period do not make contact with those from the future. How are those from the future looked at?

(see the answer key)

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