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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 18 June 1905 through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what do people who have been transported back in time wear?
(a) Tatters of clothes.
(b) Dark, indistinct clothing.
(c) Nothing; their clothing does not transfer to other time periods.
(d) Bright, illuminating clothing.

2. What happens to the people in the world, described in the "10 June 1905" dream, who attempt to quantify time?
(a) They turn to ice.
(b) They leave to find a place where they can quantify time.
(c) They are banished into other "worlds."
(d) They turn to stone.

3. In the "15 June 1905" dream, how many years in the future does the young woman go?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

4. What does the narrator want readers to "suppose" time is in the "10 June 1905" dream?
(a) A measurement.
(b) A sole existence.
(c) A quality and not a quantity.
(d) A quantity and not a quality.

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. When does Besso remember looking like Einstein as he is now (second Interlude)?

2. According to the "4 May 1905" dream, "If time and the passage of events are the same" what happens to time?

3. What is the paper on that Einstein set on Besso's desk (as told in the second Interlude)?

4. According to the narrator in the "28 April 1905" dream, what is visible in all places?

5. What is the last image readers are left with at the end of the "15 May 1905" dream?

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