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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time?
(a) Deja vu.
(b) Carbon copy.
(c) Psychic moment.
(d) Fond memory.

2. What refers to that which is concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth?
(a) Metaphysical.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Science.
(d) Geological.

3. While reading the book from the future, Charles notices that the words do what in Chapter 17?
(a) Create differences among people.
(b) Adjust themselves as his eyes travel the pages.
(c) Bring people together.
(d) Carry hidden meanings.

4. Charles's father makes the discovery that what can be a time machine in Chapter 24?
(a) Anything.
(b) Only metal objects.
(c) Only wooden vessels.
(d) Cars but not boats.

5. Who does Charles see after a bell sounds in Chapter 20?
(a) His father.
(b) Ed.
(c) His cousin.
(d) The Woman My Mother Should Have Been.

6. The institution Charles and his father visit in Chapter 25 represents what to Charles's father?
(a) A life full of achievement.
(b) The power of the human brain.
(c) A life with many regrets.
(d) The hallowed halls of scientific achievement.

7. In Chapter 20, Charles falls screaming into an abyss, and then someone says he is in what?
(a) Stagnant time.
(b) A wormhole.
(c) A nebula.
(d) A time transfer system.

8. Where does the groove in the side of the book open to in Chapter 28?
(a) Page 201.
(b) Page 43.
(c) Page 325.
(d) Page 156.

9. Chapter 19 shows Charles opening the time capsule hatch and finding what message?
(a) "I did the best I could."
(b) "NOTES."
(c) "Instructions for a happy life."
(d) "[this page left intentionally blank]."

10. At Charles's request in Chapter 27, TAMMY calculates the probability of the occurrence discussed as once every how many years?
(a) 78.3.
(b) 66.2.
(c) 29.7.
(d) 42.4.

11. Despite the fact that TAMMY and TOAD tell him it is a bad idea, Charles keys in the instructions to do what in Chapter 18?
(a) Turn to page 55.
(b) Start at the beginning.
(c) Write the table of contents.
(d) Turn to the last page.

12. In Chapter 18, Charles cannot see why he should not just jump forward in time, to when what is finished?
(a) Time.
(b) Ed's life.
(c) His life.
(d) The book.

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

14. In Chapter 30, Charles asks TAMMY how long they were in the loop and she replies that time never moved forward after he shot himself, because he tried to skip forward in time and entered what?
(a) The void.
(b) A black hole.
(c) The abyss.
(d) A nebula.

15. 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) "Dark matter."
(c) "Space time."
(d) "Tensed information."

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles is how old at the start of Chapter 25?

2. Charles thinks in Chapter 20 of how his mother always would ask for what in an utterly unembarrassed way?

3. What does Charles see Ed gnawing on in Chapter 28?

4. In Chapter 30, Charles realizes that in order to escape the time loop, he must do what?

5. Charles realizes in Chapter 20 that the room he is in is a construct of what?

(see the answer keys)

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