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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. Where is the young man's theory of time to be mailed?
(a) The German journal of physics.
(b) The American journal of physics.
(c) The Swiss journal of physics.
(d) The European journal of physics.

2. What is wrong with the people who live in the world described in the "20 May 1905" dream?
(a) They have no memories.
(b) They have no hope.
(c) They have no dreams.
(d) They have no future.

3. What does the narrator want readers to imagine in the "3 June 1905" dream?
(a) That people live for only 2 days.
(b) That people live only one day.
(c) That people live for only 36 hours.
(d) That people live for only 12 hours.

4. What does the narrator say about a world with no time?
(a) The world forgets how to function.
(b) There is no life without time.
(c) Without time the world fails to progress at a natural pace.
(d) People take too much for granted.

5. What does the middle-aged man in the "2 June 1905" dream hope to know about that no one else has ever known?
(a) Relativity.
(b) Nature.
(c) Laws of Time.
(d) Facts about light.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a traveler from the future talk?

2. Why does Einstein sneak away from his wife in the middle of the night?

3. Why do some people, in the world described in the "29 May 1905" dream, refuse to look out their windows?

4. According to the "8 May 1905" dream, what is the date the world will end?

5. What is Einstein eating in the second Interlude?

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