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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 8 May, 1905 through 15 May, 1905.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream, what happens in the springtime?
(a) The people gather at a central point and sing praise to Mother Nature.
(b) The season reverses and goes back towards winter.
(c) The people leave so that the town can realign on its own.
(d) The people try to make the world disorderly.

2. How does time move in the "14 May 1905" dream?
(a) Inward in concentric circles, exploding at the center.
(b) Outward in concentric circles, at rest at the center.
(c) Inward in spirals, exploding at the center.
(d) Outward in spirals, at rest in the center.

3. What song is the young man humming as he waits for the typist to come into the office?
(a) Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."
(b) Beethoven's "Fantasy in G."
(c) Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus."
(d) Beethoven's "Fur Elise."

4. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, why do children who have left the city curse their parents?
(a) For trying to hold them forever.
(b) For bearing them in the first place.
(c) For extending their life.
(d) For loving them too much.

5. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?
(a) He lives life in poverty.
(b) He lives life in wealth.
(c) He suffers knowingly.
(d) He suffers unknowingly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Einstein want to understand time?

2. What is the woman in the shadows waiting for?

3. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?

4. How many pages is the young man's theory of time?

5. Where are Einstein and Besso walking in the "Interlude?"

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