Einstein's Dreams Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Alan Lightman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Einstein's Dreams Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Alan Lightman
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 26 April, 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the Zytgloggeturm pay tribute?
(a) The future.
(b) Time.
(c) The past.
(d) The infinite.

2. According to the narrator, why do people wear watches?
(a) As time keepers.
(b) As reminders.
(c) As weight for balance.
(d) As ornaments.

3. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Peace.
(c) Impulse.
(d) Forgiving.

4. Where is Besso's visitor from?
(a) Prague.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Venice.

5. To take advantage of what scientists have discovered in the past, what have some people done to their homes?
(a) Built them on boats over the Equator.
(b) Built them in caves.
(c) Built them with no contract on time.
(d) Placed them on stilts in the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the "4 May 1905" dream, "If time and the passage of events are the same" what happens to time?

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

3. How many pages is the young man's theory of time?

4. How many times do the St. Vincent's Cathedral bells chime at the end of the 24 April 1905 dream?

5. What do those of religious faith see time as evidence of?

(see the answer key)

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