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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. What does the narrator say people transported to the past fear?
(a) A change they make in the past could affect the future.
(b) They fear not knowing how to act.
(c) Making the same mistakes they made in the "future."
(d) Nothing. They are not aware of the time transfer.

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

3. What do those of religious faith see time as evidence of?
(a) God.
(b) Death.
(c) The Apocalypse.
(d) The Second Coming.

4. What is the man on the fourth floor balcony looking down at?
(a) A blue coat.
(b) A dog looking for food.
(c) A red hat.
(d) A child playing in the street.

5. While walking with Einstein, during the Interlude, what does Besso wonder about?
(a) Why he ever started this friendship with Einstein.
(b) Einstein's plans for the future.
(c) What his wife has cooked for dinner.
(d) Why he is not the man Einstein is.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Basso and Einstein meet?

3. Where is Besso's visitor from?

4. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?

5. Where does the man in the leather jacket work at in Berne?

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