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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 tragedy of the world described in the "10 May 1905" dream?
(a) No one is happy.
(b) Everyone is sick.
(c) Everyone is dying.
(d) No one can help but sin.

2. Where does Besso invite Einstein to come to at the close of the second Interlude?
(a) To dinner at the Basin Park Hotel.
(b) To dinner at Besso's home.
(c) To the Colombia Restaurant for dinner.
(d) To the Ristorante Cooperativo for dinner.

3. Where is Einstein looking as the second Interlude comes to a close?
(a) Into space.
(b) Towards the Bernese Alps.
(c) Towards Aare.
(d) Towards the town clock.

4. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, why do children who have left the city curse their parents?
(a) For extending their life.
(b) For trying to hold them forever.
(c) For loving them too much.
(d) For bearing them in the first place.

5. What is time compared to in the "16 April 1905" dream?
(a) A dream.
(b) A cocoon.
(c) A flow of water.
(d) A tree with leaves turning due to fall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman, hiding at no. 22 Kamgasse, crouching in the shadows?

2. What kind of person does Besso think Einstein is?

3. According to the dream on 3 June 1905, what is life a brief movement of?

4. Why does the terrace of the Bundesterrasse have a striking view?

5. Where does the man in the leather jacket work at in Berne?

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