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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What month is it, in the "15 June 1905" dream, for the young man in the polytechnic in Zurich?
(a) October.
(b) June.
(c) July.
(d) December.

2. Who is carried into the woman's home (in the "2 June 1905" dream)?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her sister.

3. According to the "5 June 1905" dream, how does this world seem?
(a) Common.
(b) Erratic.
(c) Blinding.
(d) Homogeneous.

4. What happens to the woman described in the "2 June 1905" dream?
(a) She grows younger rapidly from old woman to young woman in less than a week.
(b) She grows younger.
(c) She grows younger but with significantly devastating side effects.
(d) She awakens each day not knowing how old she will be.

5. According to the "20 May 1905 dream, what must people do at the end of the day?
(a) Consult an address book to learn where they live.
(b) Call their loved ones to come get them.
(c) Follow a path created by string to find their way home.
(d) Pray.

6. How long ago, in the "17 June 1905" dream, did the lovers meet?
(a) One week ago.
(b) One year ago.
(c) One month ago.
(d) One day ago.

7. Why does the man at the graveside ("2 June 1905" dream) not weep for his friend?
(a) The man has no tears left given his friend has had a very long sickness leading up to his death.
(b) The man believes in a second life better than the first.
(c) His friend lived a very good life and he refuses to mourn him.
(d) His friend will be with him again given that time moves backward in this world.

8. How is the world described in the "15 June 1905" dream?
(a) Time is oblivious to all inhabitants.
(b) Time is reversible.
(c) Time is a visible dimension.
(d) Time is negotiable.

9. According to the dream on 3 June 1905, what is life a brief movement of?
(a) Arms and legs.
(b) A snowflake.
(c) Shadows.
(d) A clock hand.

10. What have those who live in the world of the "9 June 1905" dream determined is the only way to live?
(a) To do as much as they can, as soon as they can.
(b) To ignore all others advice.
(c) To die.
(d) To ask all others of their advice.

11. According to the narrator in the "22 May 1905" dream, a world that gives brief scenes from the future, what kinds of risks do people take?
(a) Few.
(b) Everything a person does is a risk.
(c) Only the risks that concern their children.
(d) None at all.

12. Where does Besso invite Einstein to come to at the close of the second Interlude?
(a) To the Ristorante Cooperativo for dinner.
(b) To dinner at Besso's home.
(c) To dinner at the Basin Park Hotel.
(d) To the Colombia Restaurant for dinner.

13. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, why does this world exist as it does?
(a) Time passes more slowly for those who keep order.
(b) Time passes more slowly for those in distress.
(c) Time passes more slowly for those in motion.
(d) Time passes in slow motion.

14. In the "17 June 1905" dream, why does the young man tell his lover that he cannot see her again?
(a) Due to a gap in time, she hesitates.
(b) Due to a gap in time, she frowns.
(c) Due to a gap in time, she lets on tear fall.
(d) Due to a gap in time, she grimaces.

15. In the third Interlude, where are Einstein and Besso?
(a) In a fishing boat.
(b) At Besso's home.
(c) At Einstein's home.
(d) In the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does time move in the world described in the 2 June 1905 dream?

2. How is the world actually seen by its residents in the "5 June 1905" dream?

3. What does the narrator want readers to "suppose" time is in the "10 June 1905" dream?

4. How can Besso tell that Einstein is making progress on his theory?

5. According to the narrator, the world described in the "11 June 1905" dream, is a world without what?

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