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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. According to the narrator in the "3 May 1905" dream, a world of sincerity is also a world of what?
(a) Impulse.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Forgiving.
(d) Peace.

2. What is time compared to in the "16 April 1905" dream?
(a) A cocoon.
(b) A dream.
(c) A tree with leaves turning due to fall.
(d) A flow of water.

3. What is wondrous about the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream?
(a) Money is not needed.
(b) Nothing is out of place.
(c) No one needs sleep to re-energize.
(d) All inhabitants live in dream-like states.

4. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?
(a) A world in which cause and effect balance.
(b) A world in which life and death balance.
(c) A world in which life and death do not balance.
(d) A world in which cause and effect are erratic.

5. Why will schools close a year before the end of the world?
(a) Because schools were to be used as relief centers.
(b) Because there will be no need to learn with the end so close.
(c) Because families want time to spend together.
(d) Because "end of the world" vacations needed to be taken.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To take advantage of what scientists have discovered in the past, what have some people done to their homes?

3. Where does the man in the leather jacket work at in Berne?

4. Where do the Swiss and English couples meet yearly?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can one identify people who have been transported back in time? (16 April 1905)

2. What is the problem living life within the confines of solitary moments? (14 April 1905)

3. What happens to travelers as they enter the world described in the 14 May 1905 dream?

4. Describe the people who live by "mechanical time."

5. What happens one minute before the end of the world?

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

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

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

9. At the end of the 26 April 1905 dream, what are the negative effects of living in the mountains?

10. According to the first Interlude, why is Besso worried about Einstein?

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