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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. One day before the end of the world, how are the streets described?
(a) Swirling in laughter.
(b) Deserted.
(c) Full of animals who have taken over.
(d) In the process of being cleaned.

2. Who is responsible for discovering the "speed effect?"
(a) Mr. Alan Mulhouse of Massac.
(b) Sir Archibald Barrett of Munich.
(c) Mr. Randolph Whig of Surrey.
(d) Sir Handel Moritz of Bern.

3. According to the narrator, what is the physical body?
(a) A thing to be ordered, not obeyed.
(b) A mass of organisms that pull in only one direction.
(c) A thing to be obeyed, not ordered.
(d) A mass of organisms that pull in different directions at all times.

4. According to the narrator, people in their correct time period do not make contact with those from the future. How are those from the future looked at?
(a) They are pitied.
(b) They are immortalized.
(c) They are feared.
(d) They are honored.

5. What happens to light in the "14 May 1905" dreams?
(a) Light exists as ribbons of multifaceted color.
(b) There is no light at all, only pure darkness.
(c) There is only blinding white light.
(d) There is no intensity; light looks like fireflies.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the town described in the "4 May 1905" dream, times passes, but what happens?

2. Who has Besso received a letter from announcing a visit?

3. 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?

4. Where is Besso's visitor from?

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

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