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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue through 24 April, 1905.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do travelers from the future envy?
(a) Vocalization.
(b) Hunger.
(c) People who live in their own time.
(d) Sleep.

2. According to the narrator, without commitment there is what?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Hate.
(d) Upheaval.

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

4. According to the narrator, what do people who have been transported back in time wear?
(a) Bright, illuminating clothing.
(b) Nothing; their clothing does not transfer to other time periods.
(c) Dark, indistinct clothing.
(d) Tatters of clothes.

5. Where is the young man's theory of time to be mailed?
(a) The German journal of physics.
(b) The American journal of physics.
(c) The European journal of physics.
(d) The Swiss journal of physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a traveler from the future talk?

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

3. What song is the young man humming as he waits for the typist to come into the office?

4. What is the man on the fourth floor balcony looking down at?

5. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?

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