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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 does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?
(a) A world in which life and death balance.
(b) A world in which life and death do not balance.
(c) A world in which cause and effect balance.
(d) A world in which cause and effect are erratic.

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

3. One day before the end of the world, how are the streets described?
(a) Full of animals who have taken over.
(b) In the process of being cleaned.
(c) Deserted.
(d) Swirling in laughter.

4. 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.

5. To take advantage of what scientists have discovered in the past, what have some people done to their homes?
(a) Built them in caves.
(b) Placed them on stilts in the mountains.
(c) Built them on boats over the Equator.
(d) Built them with no contract on time.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to light in the "14 May 1905" dreams?

3. What is the man on the fourth floor balcony looking down at?

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

5. Why will schools close a year before the end of the world?

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