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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 18 June 1905 through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the "4 May 1905" dream, "If time and the passage of events are the same" what happens to time?
(a) People move very fast.
(b) Time barely moves at all.
(c) Time moves very fast.
(d) People barely move at all.

2. What are the two times explained in the "24 April 1905" dream?
(a) Good and bad time.
(b) Natural and imagined time.
(c) Happy and sad time.
(d) Mechanical and body time.

3. Why does the man at the graveside ("2 June 1905" dream) not weep for his friend?
(a) The man believes in a second life better than the first.
(b) The man has no tears left given his friend has had a very long sickness leading up to his death.
(c) His friend lived a very good life and he refuses to mourn him.
(d) His friend will be with him again given that time moves backward in this world.

4. What does the European Union of 1979 depend upon?
(a) The marriage of Franz Kipperten and Penelope Marden.
(b) Hans Klausen's birth.
(c) The death of Sanze Kinterton.
(d) The meeting of Fredderik Strauss and Ivan Tauchnik.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Einstein in the novel?

2. What does the narrator want readers to imagine in the "3 June 1905" dream?

3. According to the narrator, what is the room full of?

4. What does the narrator want readers to "suppose" time is in the "10 June 1905" dream?

5. How do the Laters walk and dress?

(see the answer key)

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