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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rushes forward to envelope the people in the last seconds before the world ends?
(a) Flood waters.
(b) Snow.
(c) Winds.
(d) Darkness.

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

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

4. According to the "8 May 1905" dream, what is the date the world will end?
(a) 12 December 2012.
(b) 9 May 1906.
(c) 9 June 1905.
(d) 26 September 1907.

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

6. In the Prologue, how many times does the clock tower chime?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

7. What happens to time in the "14 May 1905" dream?
(a) Time is sped up.
(b) Time stands still.
(c) Time moves slowly.
(d) Time is set in a constant loop.

8. How does the world in the "15 May 1905" exist?
(a) Without time and with images.
(b) As a black hole, digesting everything in its reach.
(c) As a blank slate.
(d) In black and white only, with no shadow or brightness.

9. According to the narrator, what did scientists discover in the past?
(a) That time never forgets its past.
(b) That time has "blips" that stop all things living.
(c) That time moves slower the farther one is from the center of the earth.
(d) That time moves faster the farther one is from the center of the earth.

10. What do those of religious faith see time as evidence of?
(a) God.
(b) The Apocalypse.
(c) Death.
(d) The Second Coming.

11. What kind of person does Besso think Einstein is?
(a) A man exalted too early in life.
(b) A socialite and extrovert.
(c) A man torn by innovations.
(d) A recluse and introvert.

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

13. In the "3 May 1905" dream, what have most people learned how to do?
(a) Live in the past.
(b) Live for the future.
(c) Live in fear.
(d) Live in the moment.

14. According to the narrator, what is the physical body?
(a) A mass of organisms that pull in only one direction.
(b) A thing to be ordered, not obeyed.
(c) A thing to be obeyed, not ordered.
(d) A mass of organisms that pull in different directions at all times.

15. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?
(a) A sphere.
(b) An arc.
(c) A circle.
(d) An ellipse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the woman in the shadows waiting for?

2. What is the name of Basso's wife?

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

4. How does time move in the "14 May 1905" dream?

5. Where are Einstein and Besso walking in the "Interlude?"

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