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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. Why does Einstein sneak away from his wife in the middle of the night?
(a) To drink with Besso.
(b) To walk in solitude.
(c) To meet a mistress.
(d) To work on equations.

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

3. What month does the Swiss and English couple meet to vacation together?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) May.
(d) July.

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

5. How is the population of the cities in the "9 June 1905" dreams split?
(a) In three: The Laters, the Nows, and the Nevers.
(b) In four: The Laters, the Nows, the Nevers, and the Always.
(c) In three: The Laters, the Nows, the Intentionals.
(d) In two: The Laters and the Nows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do all of the people of the world described in the "9 June 1905" dream have in common?

2. According to the "4 May 1905" dream, "If time and the passage of events are the same" what happens to time?

3. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?

4. According to the narrator, what did scientists discover in the past?

5. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?

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