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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 8 May, 1905 through 15 May, 1905.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of Basso's wife?
(a) Viveka.
(b) Freja.
(c) Anna.
(d) Svea.

4. How does a traveler from the future talk?
(a) They whisper tortured sounds.
(b) They scream animalistic sounds.
(c) They cannot talk because they are mute.
(d) They speak in languages not understood by those around them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Finish the following line: "A world in which time is absolute is a world of ____________."

2. In what month is the Prologue set?

3. How many dimensions does the man in the leather coat live in simultaneously?

4. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, who makes pilgrimages to the center of time?

5. According to the narrator, why do "cursed citizens wrestle with their bedsheets"?

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