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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. According to the narrator, what is the room full of?
(a) Practical ideas.
(b) Fluttering beliefs of accomplishment.
(c) Dreams and desires.
(d) Too many hopes to account for.

2. In the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream, what does the passage of time bring?
(a) Decreasing anxiety.
(b) Increasing order.
(c) Increasing anxiety.
(d) Decreasing order.

3. To what does the Zytgloggeturm pay tribute?
(a) The past.
(b) The future.
(c) Time.
(d) The infinite.

4. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?
(a) He lives life in wealth.
(b) He suffers unknowingly.
(c) He suffers knowingly.
(d) He lives life in poverty.

5. How many pages is the young man's theory of time?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Forty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Basso's wife?

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

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

4. What is curious about the town in the "10 May 1905" dream?

5. One day before the end of the world, how are the streets described?

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