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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. When Chapter 8 opens, who is going over the details of Si's experience in the past?
(a) Ruben, Rossoff, and Lastvogel.
(b) Ruben, May, and Katie.
(c) Ruben, Rossoff, and Danziger.
(d) Si, Ruben, and Katie.

2. When Si visits the agency, what does he see people in the classrooms there doing?
(a) Learning how to operate the time travel machine.
(b) Learning to speak Spanish and how to calculate Roman numerals.
(c) Learning about time travel theory.
(d) Learning the Charleston, Medieval French, and how to fight with old weapons.

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 walk in the snow.
(c) To take a bus to the post office.
(d) To see who mailed the letter and to not interfere.

4. Why does Si stop looking out the windows at the Dakota?
(a) He imagines he's in the future.
(b) His imagining is interrupted by passing cars.
(c) The passing cars are too noisy.
(d) He doesn't like the view.

5. When Ruben and Si finish their lunch, Ruben is convinced that:
(a) Si has already decided to take the job.
(b) Si is not the right person for the job.
(c) He'll have to talk Si into taking the job.
(d) He doesn't like eating outdoors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has to give permission before Danziger can send Si back in time?

3. What is special about Si's apartment at the Dakota?

4. Si and Katie discuss what while on the bus in 1882?

5. What is the setting of the play that Si watches at the agency?

Short Essay Questions

1. Si's first day at his new job begins with a tour of the agency. What is the most beneficial thing he sees?

2. When Si returns to the agency in the present time in Chapter 11, why do the scientists quiz him about his trip to the past?

3. Which two people visit Si at the Dakota first and for what purpose?

4. Why does the agency use the Dakota as a time travel portal for Si?

5. How does Si change his appearance in the present to prepare to fit in in the past?

6. Why does Si repeatedly look out the windows of his room in the Dakota and why does he stop looking out of them?

7. How does Si feel after his assignment is approved by the board of directors?

8. What detail that Si's revealed about his experience in the past made the agency scientists so happy and why?

9. On the walls of Katie's shop Si notices several photographs, what does he think of them?

10. Why might Ruben's agency have wanted to search Si's apartment, even though they had already checked out his background?

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