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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles rescued his dog as he was about to drift into what?
(a) An asteroid.
(b) A lake.
(c) A nebula.
(d) A black hole.

2. What happened to the rest of the United States when Los Angeles and New York City merged, creating the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) It merged with Chicago.
(b) It was swallowed.
(c) It became a different country.
(d) It was demolished.

3. What does Phil start to do before he crashes in Chapter 7?
(a) Cry.
(b) Appologize.
(c) Yell.
(d) Stutter.

4. Phil is described by the narrator as easygoing, but he thinks he's what?
(a) A woman on the inside.
(b) Doomed.
(c) Worthless.
(d) A real person.

5. Charles's mother cashed in her retirement funds to buy how many years of reliving in a continuing loop?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

6. What customers want, Charles says, is to repeatedly experience the _____ moments of their lives repeatedly.
(a) Worst.
(b) Warmest.
(c) Greatest.
(d) Most loving.

7. What refers to an array of data ordered such that individual items can be located with a single index or subscript?
(a) Equation.
(b) Hypothesis.
(c) Theorem.
(d) Vector.

8. What is the most common nickname of the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) Loop City.
(b) City of Rain.
(c) City of Light.
(d) Flat City.

9. What does the narrator claim hurts him in Chapter 1?
(a) His gums.
(b) His foot.
(c) His elbow.
(d) His ear.

10. What does Charles see interacting with his mother when he visits his family's home in Chapter 13?
(a) A sexbot.
(b) His father.
(c) A hologram of himself.
(d) A group of cats.

11. In Chapter 4, the protagonist says Universe 31 can be what at night when it is aglow and everyone is awake?
(a) Amazing.
(b) Violent.
(c) Claustrophobic.
(d) Thought-provoking.

12. In Chapter 14, Charles pulls his gun and shoots his future self just as the victim is telling him that everything is what?
(a) In the book.
(b) Love.
(c) Futile.
(d) Elementary.

13. Charles describes standing at the center of Loop City as like being a character within what?
(a) A magazine article.
(b) A video game.
(c) A children's book.
(d) A horror movie.

14. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?
(a) Shoot himself.
(b) Scold himself.
(c) Run from himself.
(d) Cry.

15. What is defined as occurring when a time traveler stops remembering in order to keep going?
(a) A lapse in time.
(b) A break in time.
(c) A loss of time.
(d) A loop in time.

Short Answer Questions

1. As his mother's time loop ends, what does Charles do to snap her out of it in Chapter 13?

2. What refers to the original or model on which something is based or formed?

3. About what age is Charles in the narrative?

4. What is the name of the capital city of Universe 31?

5. An excerpt titled, "capital city" says the capital of Universe 31 contains what percent of the universe's robot population?

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