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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Why he ever started this friendship with Einstein.
(d) Einstein's plans for the future.

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

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

6. What is the tragedy of the world described in the "10 May 1905" dream?
(a) Everyone is sick.
(b) No one is happy.
(c) Everyone is dying.
(d) No one can help but sin.

7. Who has Besso received a letter from announcing a visit?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His sister.

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

9. 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 Bundes Falls.
(c) Because of the view of the square.
(d) Because of the view of the cathedral.

10. To what does the Zytgloggeturm pay tribute?
(a) The past.
(b) Time.
(c) The infinite.
(d) The future.

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

12. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?
(a) He suffers unknowingly.
(b) He lives life in poverty.
(c) He suffers knowingly.
(d) He lives life in wealth.

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

14. 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) People barely move at all.
(d) Time moves very fast.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?

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

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

4. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?

5. Where is Besso's visitor from?

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