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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 25, Charles's father talks slowly about the invention, saying that the key is "the acquisition of" what?
(a) "A flux capacitor."
(b) "Tensed information."
(c) "Space time."
(d) "Dark matter."

2. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives lasts for how long in a hypothetical period of her life?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 60 minutes.

3. In Chapter 8, Charles makes a call to a client where?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Portland.
(d) San Diego.

4. In Chapter 13, the narrator is hit with the realization that he has let a decade slip away, but he doesn't feel like what?
(a) Catching up with anyone.
(b) Achieving anything.
(c) Justifying it.
(d) Wasting any more time.

5. In Chapter 9, Charles claims to have had a one-night stand with a human-like creature once, but he has even given up coin-operated ____ because they're not much fun.
(a) Animal prostitutes.
(b) Adult movies.
(c) Sexbots.
(d) Candy machines.

Short Answer Questions

1. The excerpt "conjectures, currently unproven but believed to be true" posits that a moment has measurable substance, there are fine numbers of moments, there is no global time, and ______ is a theory of regret and limitations.

2. What statement follows "When it happens, this is what happens" in the opening of the book?

3. In Chapter 9, Charles says time is a machine for converting pain into what that cannot be changed?

4. What is a suspension in air of words and images which Charles peers into on the subway in Chapter 11?

5. In Chapter 11, after the TM-31 is put in a holding pattern because of traffic, the narrator leaves the capsule with who?

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