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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 2 June, 1905 through 10 June, 1905.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the woman in the shadows waiting for?
(a) To be arrested so she can keep her timeline of life intact.
(b) To hear the church bells chime three times.
(c) To be carried back to her own time.
(d) To hear a cardinal sing.

2. According to the narrator in the "28 April 1905" dream, what is visible in all places?
(a) The future.
(b) Time.
(c) Mistakes.
(d) The past.

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

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

5. According to Besso, what does Einstein live without?
(a) Love.
(b) Pain.
(c) Passion.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is time compared to in the "16 April 1905" dream?

2. In the second Interlude, what is the first dialogue between Besso and Einstein that the reader comes across?

3. In the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream, what happens in the springtime?

4. What is the narrator's explanation of such a short life in the "3 June 1905" dream?

5. What does the narrator want readers to "suppose" time is in the "10 June 1905" dream?

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