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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 happens to the people in the world, described in the "10 June 1905" dream, who attempt to quantify time?
(a) They turn to stone.
(b) They are banished into other "worlds."
(c) They leave to find a place where they can quantify time.
(d) They turn to ice.

2. Finish the following line: "A world in which time is absolute is a world of ____________."
(a) Consolation.
(b) Unpredictability.
(c) Immediacy.
(d) Supremacy.

3. Where do all of the people gather one minute before the end of the world?
(a) In the square.
(b) In the water of the Aare.
(c) On the grounds of their churches.
(d) On the Kunst museum grounds.

4. What is the name of the woman with the brocade in her hair?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Bridget.
(c) Suzanne.
(d) Francis.

5. Who is the author of the paper that Einstein left on Besso's desk?
(a) Lorentz.
(b) Zeeman.
(c) Kaiser.
(d) Maxwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to time in the "14 May 1905" dream?

2. What does the middle-aged man in the "2 June 1905" dream hope to know about that no one else has ever known?

3. What do travelers from the future envy?

4. What does the European Union of 1979 depend upon?

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

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