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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. Where are Einstein and Besso walking in the "Interlude?"
(a) On Speichergasse.
(b) Near the Aase.
(c) On the Kierstach.
(d) On the square.

2. How old is Einstein in the novel?
(a) 25.
(b) 26.
(c) 27.
(d) 28.

3. According to the narrator in the "28 April 1905" dream, what is visible in all places?
(a) The past.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) Time.
(d) The future.

4. Finish the following line: "A world in which time is absolute is a world of ____________."
(a) Immediacy.
(b) Consolation.
(c) Unpredictability.
(d) Supremacy.

5. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, why do children who have left the city curse their parents?
(a) For extending their life.
(b) For trying to hold them forever.
(c) For bearing them in the first place.
(d) For loving them too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?

2. According to the narrator, what did scientists discover in the past?

3. Where does Besso invite Einstein to come to at the close of the second Interlude?

4. What is the name of Basso's wife?

5. How does a traveler from the future talk?

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