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

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

3. Who is the woman saying goodbye to in the hospital on Gerberngasse?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her child.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

4. For the town described in the "4 May 1905" dream, times passes, but what happens?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) Little happens.
(c) Too much happens.
(d) Much happens.

5. What kind of person does Besso think Einstein is?
(a) A man exalted too early in life.
(b) A recluse and introvert.
(c) A man torn by innovations.
(d) A socialite and extrovert.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the "3 May 1905" dream, what have most people learned how to do?

2. Where are Einstein and Besso walking in the "Interlude?"

3. How does a traveler from the future talk?

4. While walking with Einstein, during the Interlude, what does Besso wonder about?

5. How many dimensions does the man in the leather coat live in simultaneously?

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