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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper office does Si notice on his way to Jake's office?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The Herald Ledger.
(c) The New York Observer.
(d) The New York Times.

2. After spending another day in 1882, what does Si decide about the people who live there?
(a) They need better cars.
(b) They should all come to live in the future with him.
(c) They deserve to be happy.
(d) He's glad he doesn't live there with them.

3. What is special about Si's apartment at the Dakota?
(a) It is clean.
(b) No one lived there in the past.
(c) The closet is a perfect place to store a time machine.
(d) Si's parents met there.

4. Who is surprisingly joyful to see Si when he gets to the boarding house?
(a) Felix.
(b) Aunt Ada.
(c) Jake.
(d) Danziger.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what place does Si make two sketches of?
(a) The Dakota.
(b) The farmland where the museum is in the present time.
(c) The street between the Dakota and the museum.
(d) The museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Si learn self-hypnosis?

2. How does Si break the news to his family and friends that he'll be gone for awhile?

3. Who is Jake Pickering?

4. Why does Si go to 19 Gramercy Park?

5. On Si's fourth trip to the past, why is he nervous about returning to 19 Gramercy Park?

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