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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. Finish the following line: "A world in which time is absolute is a world of ____________."
(a) Unpredictability.
(b) Immediacy.
(c) Consolation.
(d) Supremacy.

2. What are the two times explained in the "24 April 1905" dream?
(a) Good and bad time.
(b) Natural and imagined time.
(c) Mechanical and body time.
(d) Happy and sad time.

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

4. Where are Einstein and Besso walking in the "Interlude?"
(a) Near the Aase.
(b) On Speichergasse.
(c) On the Kierstach.
(d) On the square.

5. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?
(a) An arc.
(b) A circle.
(c) A sphere.
(d) An ellipse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman in the linen shop on Amthausgasse?

2. Where do the Swiss and English couples meet yearly?

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

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

5. To take advantage of what scientists have discovered in the past, what have some people done to their homes?

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