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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns does the board of directors have about Si's trips to the past?
(a) That he's not really going to the past.
(b) That he might find his parents.
(c) That he will change the present.
(d) That it costs too much money.

2. Si admits he enjoys Katie's company, but tells the reader that:
(a) She talks too much.
(b) He will keep most things about their relationship to himself.
(c) He wishes she were more exciting.
(d) He wants to get to know her better.

3. While preparing for their trip to the past, what post-hypnotic suggestion do Si and Katie give themselves?
(a) To find out when the letter was mailed.
(b) To take a bus to the post office.
(c) To take a walk in the snow.
(d) To see who mailed the letter and to not interfere.

4. Si is both _______________ and _______________ by Ruben's job offer.
(a) Suspicious, intrigued.
(b) Distracted, put out.
(c) Excited, flattered.
(d) Bored, disgusted.

5. During a walk in the snow, what does Si see a couple in a sleigh doing?
(a) He doesn't see a sleigh.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Holding hands.

6. What does Si need to learn about the year 1882?
(a) How the mail system worked.
(b) The language, history, and manners.
(c) Who was President of the United States.
(d) How the people traveled.

7. While Si is making dinner during his last few days at the Dakota, who surprises him with a visit?
(a) Katie.
(b) Danziger.
(c) May.
(d) Dr. Rossoff.

8. How does Ruben know that Katie went with Si into the past?
(a) Danziger told him.
(b) Si is being watched.
(c) Si told him.
(d) Katie told him.

9. What did Andrew Carmody do for a living?
(a) He was a guard at the White House.
(b) He was a minor official in Grover Cleveland's administration.
(c) He drove Grover Cleveland's car.
(d) He was president of the United States.

10. What does Danziger tell Si the agency's motivation for time travel is?
(a) To stop someone from being born.
(b) To prove it can be done.
(c) To change the past.
(d) To see how people lived a long time ago.

11. What does the government agency director tell Si?
(a) He is making a huge mistake.
(b) He can't tell anyone about time travel.
(c) He is in for an experience he will never forget.
(d) He can't work for the agency.

12. When Si finishes his training at the agency where is he taken?
(a) To the post office.
(b) To the laboratory.
(c) To the Statue of Liberty.
(d) To the Dakota.

13. The morning after Si's walk in the snow, what has mysteriously vanished?
(a) Si's footprints and the sleigh's tracks.
(b) Carmody's letter.
(c) Si's car.
(d) Si's memories of the day before.

14. During their lunch meeting, whose theory about time does Danziger explain to Si?
(a) Michel Nostradamus's.
(b) Galileo Galilei's.
(c) Stephen Hawking's.
(d) Albert Einstein's.

15. After one of their dates, what does Katie tell Si?
(a) That she wants to travel through time too.
(b) That she was adopted.
(c) That she was related to Grover Cleveland.
(d) That she wants to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Si think about accepting Ruben's job offer?

2. Why did Si not tell the scientists that Katie traveled with him into the past?

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

4. How does Katie help Si with his job training?

5. Who is Esterhazy?

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