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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 11 June 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?
(a) A circle.
(b) An ellipse.
(c) A sphere.
(d) An arc.

2. According to the "4 May 1905" dream, "If time and the passage of events are the same" what happens to time?
(a) People barely move at all.
(b) Time barely moves at all.
(c) Time moves very fast.
(d) People move very fast.

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

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

5. At what time do the people of Berne convene at Kramgasse?
(a) At two minutes to two.
(b) At three minutes to four.
(c) At seven minutes to five.
(d) At four minutes to three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the man in the leather jacket work at in Berne?

2. Where do all of the people gather one minute before the end of the world?

3. Why does Einstein sneak away from his wife in the middle of the night?

4. When does Besso remember looking like Einstein as he is now (second Interlude)?

5. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?

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