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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do all of the people who have gathered together one minute before the end of the world do?
(a) Form a circle and hold hands.
(b) Look to the sky and sing.
(c) Lay down in family groups and hold each other.
(d) Kneel and pray.

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

3. How does a traveler from the future talk?
(a) They cannot talk because they are mute.
(b) They speak in languages not understood by those around them.
(c) They whisper tortured sounds.
(d) They scream animalistic sounds.

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

5. Where did Basso and Einstein meet?
(a) Uster.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Maur.
(d) Wohlen.

6. What is the woman in the shadows waiting for?
(a) To be arrested so she can keep her timeline of life intact.
(b) To hear the church bells chime three times.
(c) To hear a cardinal sing.
(d) To be carried back to her own time.

7. According to the narrator, what do people who have been transported back in time wear?
(a) Dark, indistinct clothing.
(b) Bright, illuminating clothing.
(c) Tatters of clothes.
(d) Nothing; their clothing does not transfer to other time periods.

8. In what month is the Prologue set?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) August.
(d) June.

9. What happens to light in the "14 May 1905" dreams?
(a) There is no light at all, only pure darkness.
(b) There is only blinding white light.
(c) Light exists as ribbons of multifaceted color.
(d) There is no intensity; light looks like fireflies.

10. According to the narrator, what is the room full of?
(a) Too many hopes to account for.
(b) Fluttering beliefs of accomplishment.
(c) Practical ideas.
(d) Dreams and desires.

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

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

13. According to the narrator, people in their correct time period do not make contact with those from the future. How are those from the future looked at?
(a) They are honored.
(b) They are pitied.
(c) They are feared.
(d) They are immortalized.

14. 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 work on equations.
(d) To meet a mistress.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do all of the people gather one minute before the end of the world?

2. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, who makes pilgrimages to the center of time?

3. How many times do the St. Vincent's Cathedral bells chime at the end of the 24 April 1905 dream?

4. To take advantage of what scientists have discovered in the past, what have some people done to their homes?

5. What song is the young man humming as he waits for the typist to come into the office?

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