Einstein's Dreams Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Alan Lightman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Einstein's Dreams Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Alan Lightman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 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 "Moonlight Sonata."
(c) Beethoven's "Fur Elise."
(d) Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus."

2. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?
(a) Happened a million times before.
(b) Never happened before.
(c) Happened a hundred times before.
(d) Only happened once before.

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

4. What is time compared to in the "16 April 1905" dream?
(a) A flow of water.
(b) A tree with leaves turning due to fall.
(c) A cocoon.
(d) A dream.

5. How many times do the St. Vincent's Cathedral bells chime at the end of the 24 April 1905 dream?
(a) Twice.
(b) Nine.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eleven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator, what is the room full of?

3. According to the narrator, what is the physical body?

4. Why is the woman, hiding at no. 22 Kamgasse, crouching in the shadows?

5. How does a traveler from the future talk?

(see the answer key)

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