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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are events triggered in the world described in the "10 June 1905" dream?
(a) By measurements.
(b) By other events.
(c) By meeting standards.
(d) By time alone.

2. What time of the day is it at the beginning of the second Interlude?
(a) Mid-day.
(b) Early morning.
(c) Noon.
(d) Late evening.

3. According to the "22 May 1905" dream, how does time flow in the world described?
(a) In accelerating spurts.
(b) Smoothly and consistently.
(c) Unevenly and fitfully.
(d) In alternating phases of fast and slow.

4. What does the middle-aged man in the "2 June 1905" dream hope to know about that no one else has ever known?
(a) Laws of Time.
(b) Nature.
(c) Facts about light.
(d) Relativity.

5. According to the dream on 3 June 1905, what is life a brief movement of?
(a) Shadows.
(b) A clock hand.
(c) Arms and legs.
(d) A snowflake.

6. In the world described in the "3 June 1905" dream, how do people learn about the seasons?
(a) Through museums.
(b) Through pictures.
(c) From books.
(d) Through notes from the dead.

7. What invention preceded the notice of the "speed effect"?
(a) Newton's invention of the laws of universal gravitation and motion.
(b) Da Vinci's invention of the parachute.
(c) The invention of the internal combustion engine.
(d) The Wright Brothers' invention of the first engine plane.

8. Who is carried into the woman's home (in the "2 June 1905" dream)?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her father.

9. What month is it, in the "15 June 1905" dream, for the young man in the polytechnic in Zurich?
(a) June.
(b) October.
(c) December.
(d) July.

10. In the "17 June 1905" dream, why is the baker yelling at a woman?
(a) She is not making her regular pick-ups on time.
(b) She has not paid her bill.
(c) She is his lover and they are arguing.
(d) She is late for work.

11. Who is the author of the paper that Einstein left on Besso's desk?
(a) Kaiser.
(b) Zeeman.
(c) Maxwell.
(d) Lorentz.

12. According to the narrator, in the world described in the "22 May 1905" dream, what happens to people who have had "their vision"?
(a) Their world is one of guaranteed success.
(b) Their world is one of constant failures.
(c) Their world is one of uncompleted plans.
(d) Their world is fragmented.

13. How is time described in the "17 June 1905" dream?
(a) As continuous.
(b) As explosive.
(c) As discontinuous.
(d) As flashes.

14. Why do some people, in the world described in the "29 May 1905" dream, refuse to look out their windows?
(a) Because they are mad that others are traveling faster than they are.
(b) Because they are afraid that others are moving slower than they are.
(c) Because they live in complete solitude and what no interference.
(d) Because they are afraid to look upon the clock tower on Kramgasse.

15. What is Einstein eating in the second Interlude?
(a) Sweet potato croquettes.
(b) Crackers.
(c) Cottolene.
(d) Banbury tarts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator want readers to imagine in the "3 June 1905" dream?

2. Where is Einstein looking as the second Interlude comes to a close?

3. How does time move in the world described in the 2 June 1905 dream?

4. How long ago, in the "17 June 1905" dream, did the lovers meet?

5. What can a person see from the cafe on the corner of Kramagasse and Theaterplatz?

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