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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 20 May, 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the woman in the shadows waiting for?
(a) To be carried back to her own time.
(b) To hear a cardinal sing.
(c) To be arrested so she can keep her timeline of life intact.
(d) To hear the church bells chime three times.

2. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, who makes pilgrimages to the center of time?
(a) Only newlyweds.
(b) Those close to death.
(c) Parents with their children and lovers.
(d) Everyone at least once in his or her life.

3. Why do some people, in the world described in the "29 May 1905" dream, refuse to look out their windows?
(a) Because they live in complete solitude and what no interference.
(b) Because they are afraid to look upon the clock tower on Kramgasse.
(c) Because they are mad that others are traveling faster than they are.
(d) Because they are afraid that others are moving slower than they are.

4. According to the narrator, what did scientists discover in the past?
(a) That time never forgets its past.
(b) That time moves faster the farther one is from the center of the earth.
(c) That time moves slower the farther one is from the center of the earth.
(d) That time has "blips" that stop all things living.

5. According to the narrator in the "22 May 1905" dream, a world that gives brief scenes from the future, what kinds of risks do people take?
(a) Everything a person does is a risk.
(b) Only the risks that concern their children.
(c) Few.
(d) None at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the paper that Einstein left on Besso's desk?

2. How does time move in the "14 May 1905" dream?

3. According to the narrator, in the world described in the "22 May 1905" dream, what happens to people who have had "their vision"?

4. Where is the young man's theory of time to be mailed?

5. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, how does the world exist?

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