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. According to the narrator, why do "cursed citizens wrestle with their bedsheets"?
(a) Because their mistakes will be repeated.
(b) Because their lives are in shambles.
(c) Because they feel torn by time.
(d) Because they have sinned.

2. 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 "Fur Elise."
(c) Beethoven's "Fantasy in G."
(d) Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."

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

4. How many dimensions does the man in the leather coat live in simultaneously?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to the dream on "24 April 1905," what happens when the two "times" meet?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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