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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 "28 April 1905" dream, what is visible in all places?
(a) The future.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) The past.
(d) Time.

2. Where is Besso's visitor from?
(a) Prague.
(b) Venice.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

3. What do travelers from the future envy?
(a) People who live in their own time.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Vocalization.

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

5. Where are Einstein and Besso walking in the "Interlude?"
(a) Near the Aase.
(b) On Speichergasse.
(c) On the Kierstach.
(d) On the square.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the "3 May 1905" dream, what have most people learned how to do?

2. Who has Besso received a letter from announcing a visit?

3. What rushes forward to envelope the people in the last seconds before the world ends?

4. Why is the woman in the linen shop on Amthausgasse?

5. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, who makes pilgrimages to the center of time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the benefits of a world in which time is absolute?

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

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

4. What happens one month before the world ends?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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