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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe births, marriages, and deaths in the 15 June 1905 dream?
(a) Insignificant happenings.
(b) Doors to choose to enter.
(c) Overly significant happenings.
(d) Signposts in time.

2. Where are Besso and Einstein sitting in the second Interlude?
(a) A cafe.
(b) A brasserie.
(c) Besso's home.
(d) A bookstore.

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

4. In the "11 June 1905" dream, imagining the _____________ is no more possible than seeing colors beyond _______________.
(a) Present/Black.
(b) Present/Blue.
(c) Future/Red.
(d) Future/ Violet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the young woman, in the "15 June 190" dream, when she finally stops her travel into the future?

2. According to the dream on 3 June 1905, what is life a brief movement of?

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

4. What does the narrator want readers to "suppose" in the "9 June 1905" dream?

5. According to the narrator, in the world described in the "22 May 1905" dream, what happens to people who have had "their vision"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the man at the graveside refuse to weep for his deceased friend?

2. How does the narrator describe time in the 17 June 1905 dream?

3. Describe the way that time is experienced in the 5 June 1905 dream.

4. Describe what happens between the baker and the woman in the 17 June 1905 dream.

5. What is the young woman at no. 27 Viktoriastrasse doing right before she thrusts herself into the future?

6. Why have some inhabitants of the 29 May 1905 world become frustrated and despondent?

7. Describe the life of a peach in the world where time travels in reverse.

8. Describe the cafe that stands on the corner of Kramgasse and Theaterplatz.

9. How does the narrator describe the phenomenon of people only living one day in the 3 June 1905 dream?

10. How does the narrator describe a world without a future?

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