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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is wondrous about the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream?
(a) No one needs sleep to re-energize.
(b) Money is not needed.
(c) All inhabitants live in dream-like states.
(d) Nothing is out of place.

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

4. How does time move in the "14 May 1905" dream?
(a) Inward in concentric circles, exploding at the center.
(b) Outward in spirals, at rest in the center.
(c) Inward in spirals, exploding at the center.
(d) Outward in concentric circles, at rest at the center.

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

6. Where is Besso's visitor from?
(a) Paris.
(b) Prague.
(c) Venice.
(d) Rome.

7. What is the name of Einstein's wife?
(a) Mileva.
(b) Gulla.
(c) Marit.
(d) Karin.

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

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

10. 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 pitied.
(b) They are immortalized.
(c) They are feared.
(d) They are honored.

11. According to the narrator, what are people in a world of only one day?
(a) Equal.
(b) Excited.
(c) Saddened.
(d) Accepting.

12. What song is the young man humming as he waits for the typist to come into the office?
(a) Beethoven's "Fur Elise."
(b) Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."
(c) Beethoven's "Fantasy in G."
(d) Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus."

13. How many dimensions does the man in the leather coat live in simultaneously?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

14. Who is the woman saying goodbye to in the hospital on Gerberngasse?
(a) Her child.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her father.

15. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, why do children who have left the city curse their parents?
(a) For extending their life.
(b) For bearing them in the first place.
(c) For trying to hold them forever.
(d) For loving them too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two times explained in the "24 April 1905" dream?

2. In what month is the Prologue set?

3. How does the world in the "15 May 1905" exist?

4. What is the last image readers are left with at the end of the "15 May 1905" dream?

5. How old is Einstein in the novel?

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