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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 26 April, 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?
(a) Forgiving.
(b) Impulse.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Peace.

2. According to the narrator, what is the physical body?
(a) A thing to be ordered, not obeyed.
(b) A thing to be obeyed, not ordered.
(c) A mass of organisms that pull in only one direction.
(d) A mass of organisms that pull in different directions at all times.

3. According to the narrator, what did scientists discover in the past?
(a) That time moves faster the farther one is from the center of the earth.
(b) That time moves slower the farther one is from the center of the earth.
(c) That time has "blips" that stop all things living.
(d) That time never forgets its past.

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

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?
(a) They are pitied.
(b) They are immortalized.
(c) They are honored.
(d) They are feared.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a traveler from the future talk?

2. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?

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

4. While walking with Einstein, during the Interlude, what does Besso wonder about?

5. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?

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