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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 11 June 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the world actually seen by its residents in the "5 June 1905" dream?
(a) Through the senses.
(b) Through sight alone.
(c) Through different lenses by different people.
(d) As though looking through the same camera for all inhabitants.

3. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?
(a) Impulse.
(b) Forgiving.
(c) Peace.
(d) Imagination.

4. What invention preceded the notice of the "speed effect"?
(a) Da Vinci's invention of the parachute.
(b) The Wright Brothers' invention of the first engine plane.
(c) Newton's invention of the laws of universal gravitation and motion.
(d) The invention of the internal combustion engine.

5. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?
(a) Happened a hundred times before.
(b) Never happened before.
(c) Happened a million times before.
(d) Only happened once before.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is time described in the "17 June 1905" dream?

2. Where are Besso and Einstein sitting in the second Interlude?

3. Who is carried into the woman's home (in the "2 June 1905" dream)?

4. How many dimensions does the man in the leather coat live in simultaneously?

5. Why will schools close a year before the end of the world?

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