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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An excerpt, "convenience, particular sadness of," describes several services available in the city, including holograms of ex-girlfriends and what?
(a) Servant robots.
(b) Drinking buddy robots.
(c) Fighting robots.
(d) Best friend robots.

2. What does the woman in Chapter 20 tell Charles when he asks if his father is here?
(a) He went away long ago.
(b) He should be back within an hour.
(c) Only in spirit.
(d) He won't return until Tuesday.

3. Chapter 22 describes the first time-travel trip taken by Charles and his father in a machine they built where?
(a) In an aircraft hanger.
(b) In the back yard.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the garage.

4. What refers to an estimation of probability; forecast?
(a) Calculation.
(b) Prediction.
(c) Horoscope.
(d) Odds.

5. What refers to logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Sobriety.
(c) Coherence.
(d) Wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is credited in the beginning of the book for the quote, "Everything we are is at every moment alive in us"?

2. Charles had punished his father with silence for how long after his mother left the home?

3. The protagonist holds a hologram of what in his hands when he communicates with Phil?

4. Chapter 3 begins with the protagonist thinking about his father reading a storybook to him when he was what age?

5. What refers to an expression or a proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities?

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