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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does the terrace of the Bundesterrasse have a striking view?
(a) Because of the Aare river and the Bernese Alps.
(b) Because of the view of the cathedral.
(c) Because of the view of the Bundes Falls.
(d) Because of the view of the square.

4. According to the narrator, without commitment there is what?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Upheaval.
(d) Hate.

5. What is the name of the woman with the brocade in her hair?
(a) Bridget.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Francis.
(d) Suzanne.

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

7. What happens one month before the end of the world?
(a) Families will gather to spend the last month together.
(b) Governments will shut down and martial law will take over.
(c) Cities will be shut down and people will move to the country.
(d) Businesses will close.

8. At what time do the people of Berne convene at Kramgasse?
(a) At two minutes to two.
(b) At three minutes to four.
(c) At seven minutes to five.
(d) At four minutes to three.

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

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

11. How many pages is the young man's theory of time?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Twenty.

12. What did Einstein's theory of time begin as?
(a) An investigation of electricity and magnetism.
(b) An investigation of survival of the fittest.
(c) An investigation of Plato's theories.
(d) An investigation of Socrates' theories.

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

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

15. Why is the woman, hiding at no. 22 Kamgasse, crouching in the shadows?
(a) She has been assaulted and does not know whom to trust.
(b) She is afraid of kicking up dust.
(c) She is afraid of being attacked.
(d) She is not sure where she is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Basso and Einstein meet?

2. According to the narrator, what is a world with one month a world of?

3. What happens to time in the "14 May 1905" dream?

4. What do travelers from the future envy?

5. According to the narrator, what do parents treasure given they think they may not witness it again?

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