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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. In Chapter 20, Charles realizes that the shoes he had seen belonged to whom?

2. What does Charles find inside the box in Chapter 28?

3. TAMMY's software has no way of distinguishing exact patterns repeated within what?

4. What first prototype time machine does Charles recall in Chapter 21?

5. How old is Charles in the memory of himself and his family in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charles discover using the key in Chapter 29?

2. What does Charles discover in the book in Chapter 28?

3. What discovery did Charles and his father make about time travel in Charles's memory in Chapter 22?

4. What is symbolized when Charles watches his mother's reaction in Chapter 23?

5. What theory is described in the excerpt called "decoherence and wave function collapse"?

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

7. How is Charles's book from the future metaphorical for memory?

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

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

10. What is symbolic about the scene in Chapter 25 with Charles and his father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze the character of the narrator's mother in the novel. In what state is the mother trapped in and how did she get that way?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the theory of "chronodiegetics" and the relationship between time and literature in the novel. How is literary narrative symbolized?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the themes of time and memory in the novel. How are time and memory related, according to the narrator?

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