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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the people in the world, described in the "10 June 1905" dream, who attempt to quantify time?
(a) They leave to find a place where they can quantify time.
(b) They turn to ice.
(c) They turn to stone.
(d) They are banished into other "worlds."

2. According to the "20 May 1905 dream, what must people do at the end of the day?
(a) Call their loved ones to come get them.
(b) Follow a path created by string to find their way home.
(c) Consult an address book to learn where they live.
(d) Pray.

3. What does the narrator want readers to "suppose" time is in the "10 June 1905" dream?
(a) A quality and not a quantity.
(b) A measurement.
(c) A sole existence.
(d) A quantity and not a quality.

4. What is the young woman staring at in the end of the "15 June 1905" dream?"
(a) A photo of her as a child.
(b) A photo of her with her newborn child.
(c) A photo of her daughter as a child.
(d) A photo of her getting married.

5. How do the clouds appear, in the "17 June 1905" dream, after a gap in time?
(a) Moved, but not really enough to notice.
(b) Moved and, therefore, confusing for inhabitants.
(c) Gone completely.
(d) Exactly the same.

6. According to Besso, what does Einstein live without?
(a) Pain.
(b) Love.
(c) Passion.
(d) Hate.

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

8. Where is Einstein looking as the second Interlude comes to a close?
(a) Into space.
(b) Towards the Bernese Alps.
(c) Towards the town clock.
(d) Towards Aare.

9. What is wrong with the people who live in the world described in the "20 May 1905" dream?
(a) They have no hope.
(b) They have no dreams.
(c) They have no memories.
(d) They have no future.

10. What does Einstein ask Besso for during the third Interlude?
(a) A blanket.
(b) A coat.
(c) A sandwich.
(d) A cracker.

11. What does the middle-aged man receive during the "2 June 1905" dream?
(a) A Humanitarian Award.
(b) The Georg Büchner Prize.
(c) A Nobel Prize for literature.
(d) A Nobel Prize for physics.

12. For people in the world described in the "20 May 1905" dream, what does each one carry?
(a) Personal cameras to record their visits.
(b) Their own personal Book of Life.
(c) Their own record of sins.
(d) A cross to ward off evil.

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

14. What are gaps described as in this world's time, the "17 June 1905" dream?
(a) Somewhat noticeable that people make small readjustments and continue.
(b) Imperceptible.
(c) So overly noticeable that some people go insane.
(d) So noticeable that people are confused.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is time described in the "17 June 1905" dream?

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

3. According to the narrator in the "22 May 1905" dream, a world that gives brief scenes from the future, what kinds of risks do people take?

4. In the "17 June 1905" dream, why does the young man tell his lover that he cannot see her again?

5. What is the paper on that Einstein set on Besso's desk (as told in the second Interlude)?

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