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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 do all of the people who have gathered together one minute before the end of the world do?
(a) Look to the sky and sing.
(b) Form a circle and hold hands.
(c) Kneel and pray.
(d) Lay down in family groups and hold each other.

2. What do all of the people of the world described in the "9 June 1905" dream have in common?
(a) A lifetime to complete their goals.
(b) An infinite list of relatives.
(c) A long list of misdeeds.
(d) A mastering of time.

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

4. What time of the day is it at the beginning of the second Interlude?
(a) Late evening.
(b) Mid-day.
(c) Early morning.
(d) Noon.

5. What does the middle-aged man receive during the "2 June 1905" dream?
(a) A Humanitarian Award.
(b) A Nobel Prize for physics.
(c) A Nobel Prize for literature.
(d) The Georg Büchner Prize.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is time described in the "17 June 1905" dream?

2. How is the world described in the "15 June 1905" dream?

3. What is the paper on that Einstein set on Besso's desk (as told in the second Interlude)?

4. What happens to the people in the world, described in the "10 June 1905" dream, who attempt to quantify time?

5. What is the tragedy of the world described in the "10 May 1905" dream?

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