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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rushes forward to envelope the people in the last seconds before the world ends?
(a) Flood waters.
(b) Snow.
(c) Winds.
(d) Darkness.

2. What month is it in the "19 April 1905" dream?
(a) November.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) October.

3. In the "10 May 1905" dream, why is one man sitting at a table weeping uncontrollably?
(a) He just lost his job.
(b) His son has just passed away.
(c) He was never able to tell his father that he loved him.
(d) His wife is dying of cancer.

4. In the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream, what happens in the springtime?
(a) The season reverses and goes back towards winter.
(b) The people leave so that the town can realign on its own.
(c) The people gather at a central point and sing praise to Mother Nature.
(d) The people try to make the world disorderly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?

2. Where did Basso and Einstein meet?

3. According to the narrator, why do "cursed citizens wrestle with their bedsheets"?

4. What kind of person does Besso think Einstein is?

5. How many times do the St. Vincent's Cathedral bells chime at the end of the 24 April 1905 dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the untidy people of the 11 May 1905 world do in life?

2. Why is there no communication between people of the present and people from the future? (16 April 1905)

3. What are the benefits of living in a world in which cause and effect are erratic?

4. Explain what the following statement means: Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

5. How does Einstein's desk differ from the others in the patent office?

6. Why does Besso believe that there are problems with Einstein's reasoning behind his creation of a theory of time?

7. Describe the people who live by "bodily time."

8. Why do people in the 26 April 1905 dream choose to live in the mountains?

9. What effect does height have in the 26 April 1905 dream?

10. For the world described in the 11 May 1905 dream, describe the differences between the past and the future.

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