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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles's mother gives him a wrapped box from where in Chapter 13?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The attic.
(c) His closet.
(d) The garage.

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

3. What does Charles's mother complain about when she speaks to him in Chapter 13?
(a) Her time loop has grown boring.
(b) He calls too seldom.
(c) She feels old.
(d) He needs a haircut.

4. The protagonist holds a hologram of what in his hands when he communicates with Phil?
(a) The earth.
(b) Phil's head.
(c) The universe.
(d) The time machine.

5. Charles believes the present and chronology are overrated because most people who move ahead in time are always doing what?
(a) Regretting their past.
(b) Checking the calendar.
(c) Looking back.
(d) Dreaming.

6. Charles stays in shape in his machine by lifting what as a weight?
(a) His toolbox.
(b) His dog.
(c) A water jug.
(d) Spare parts.

7. In the diagram of CY's time loop, the notes indicate that CY is who?
(a) Cameron Yorn.
(b) Charles Yu.
(c) Charlie Young.
(d) Chuck Yager.

8. What occupation did Charles's father have?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Movie star.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Writer.

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

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

11. An excerpt called "corporate ownership of" says Universe 31 was sold by its first owners to what company?
(a) General Motors.
(b) Monsanto.
(c) Time Warner Time.
(d) Walmart.

12. What is the name of Charles's time machine?
(a) The TM-31 Recreational Time Travel Device.
(b) The Key to the Past.
(c) The Dawn of Time.
(d) The TTD-84 Timewarper.

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

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

15. Who is not sure the capsule will make it back safely to headquarters in Chapter 10?
(a) Charles's father.
(b) Marie.
(c) TAMMY.
(d) Phil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, the protagonist says Universe 31 can be what at night when it is aglow and everyone is awake?

3. An excerpt from "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", called "size of," describes Universe 31 as being smaller than what?

4. In Chapter 8, Charles tells the client she has used her time machine to go into an alternate past where she was present when who was dying?

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

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