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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. What are the two times explained in the "24 April 1905" dream?
(a) Mechanical and body time.
(b) Happy and sad time.
(c) Natural and imagined time.
(d) Good and bad time.

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

3. Why is the woman, hiding at no. 22 Kamgasse, crouching in the shadows?
(a) She is afraid of kicking up dust.
(b) She is afraid of being attacked.
(c) She is not sure where she is.
(d) She has been assaulted and does not know whom to trust.

4. While walking with Einstein, during the Interlude, what does Besso wonder about?
(a) Einstein's plans for the future.
(b) What his wife has cooked for dinner.
(c) Why he is not the man Einstein is.
(d) Why he ever started this friendship with Einstein.

5. What song is the young man humming as he waits for the typist to come into the office?
(a) Beethoven's "Fantasy in G."
(b) Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus."
(c) Beethoven's "Fur Elise."
(d) Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman in the linen shop on Amthausgasse?

2. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?

3. 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?

4. Where did Basso and Einstein meet?

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

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