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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 2 June, 1905 through 10 June, 1905.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the "4 May 1905" dream, "If time and the passage of events are the same" what happens to time?
(a) Time barely moves at all.
(b) People move very fast.
(c) People barely move at all.
(d) Time moves very fast.

2. What does the middle-aged man in the "2 June 1905" dream hope to know about that no one else has ever known?
(a) Relativity.
(b) Nature.
(c) Laws of Time.
(d) Facts about light.

3. Why will schools close a year before the end of the world?
(a) Because there will be no need to learn with the end so close.
(b) Because schools were to be used as relief centers.
(c) Because "end of the world" vacations needed to be taken.
(d) Because families want time to spend together.

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

5. What kind of person does Besso think Einstein is?
(a) A man torn by innovations.
(b) A recluse and introvert.
(c) A man exalted too early in life.
(d) A socialite and extrovert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the man at the graveside ("2 June 1905" dream) not weep for his friend?

2. What happens one month before the end of the world?

3. What does the narrator want readers to imagine in the "3 June 1905" dream?

4. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, why does this world exist as it does?

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

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