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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?

2. What refers to logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability?

3. Charles's father is how old at the start of Chapter 25?

4. What refers to that which is concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth?

5. Who does Charles ask the shuttle driver to pick up in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discoveries does Charles make of his childhood in Chapter 21?

2. What is symbolized through the shuttle driver in Chapter 20?

3. What is symbolized by Charles's father's second machine described in Chapter 26?

4. What is metaphorical about Charles's and his father's discovery about time travel in Chapter 22?

5. How are self-reflection and self improvement symbolized in Chapter 21?

6. How does Charles describe his frame of mind in Chapters 20 and 21?

7. Why much Charles refocus his efforts in Chapter 27?

8. Against whose advice does Charles jump to the end of the book in Chapter 18? Why?

9. Why is the setting of Chapters 20 and 21 important?

10. What does the excerpt titled "Wineberg-Takayma Radius" discuss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character of "The Woman My Mother Should Have Been." How does this character differ from Charles's real mother?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the characteristics of the narrator, TAMMY and Ed, and also discuss the isolation of the narrator. With whom does he have the most interaction?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss foreshadowing and symbolism in Chapter 10. What does the narrator seeing himself outside the time capsule foreshadow?

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