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

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

3. What song is the young man humming as he waits for the typist to come into the office?
(a) Beethoven's "Fantasy in G."
(b) Beethoven's "Fur Elise."
(c) Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus."
(d) Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."

4. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?
(a) Happened a hundred times before.
(b) Happened a million times before.
(c) Never happened before.
(d) Only happened once before.

5. In the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream, what happens in the springtime?
(a) The season reverses and goes back towards winter.
(b) The people leave so that the town can realign on its own.
(c) The people try to make the world disorderly.
(d) The people gather at a central point and sing praise to Mother Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Einstein in the novel?

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

3. How many pages is the young man's theory of time?

4. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?

5. According to the narrator, what is a world with one month a world of?

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