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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) New Los Angeles/Lost Tokyo-2.
(b) San Francisco 4.
(c) New Angeles City/Old Mexico City.
(d) Space Hub Miami.

2. In Chapter 15, where is Charles feeling throbbing pain?
(a) His arm.
(b) His leg.
(c) His neck.
(d) His eye.

3. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?
(a) "Turbulent Theory of Time."
(b) "Tensed Theory of Time."
(c) "Traditional Theory of Time."
(d) "Tenseless Theory of Time."

4. What refers to a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula?
(a) Theorem.
(b) Vector.
(c) Hypothesis.
(d) Equation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is credited with the first quote in the book, which begins, "We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception"?

2. In Chapter 10, the narrator realizes he must return to corporate HQ for what reason?

3. How does Charles enter his family's home in Chapter 13?

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

5. What is the name of Charles's time machine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What robotic services are described in the excerpt "convenience, particular sadness of"?

2. What is significant about the narrator's memory of his father in Chapter 12?

3. How are the setting and protagonist of the novel described in Chapter 1?

4. What does the theme park in Loop City symbolize?

5. What is revealed about Universe 31 in the excerpt "reality, in relation to"?

6. How is nostalgia defined in the excerpt "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for"?

7. How does Chapter 3 begin? What is significant about time travel in this chapter?

8. What does the narrator advise to the client in Chapter 8? What is his assessment of his clients' desires?

9. How does the narrator describe being in Loop City in Chapter 11?

10. How is the size of Universe 31 described in the novel?

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