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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. How old is Einstein in the novel?
(a) 28.
(b) 27.
(c) 25.
(d) 26.
2. Why will schools close a year before the end of the world?
(a) Because schools were to be used as relief centers.
(b) Because "end of the world" vacations needed to be taken.
(c) Because families want time to spend together.
(d) Because there will be no need to learn with the end so close.
3. What is curious about the town in the "10 May 1905" dream?
(a) The town exists two centuries in the past.
(b) The town exists one century in the past.
(c) The town is split in two and exists as a repetition of each other.
(d) The town exists in three different time periods.
4. While walking with Einstein, during the Interlude, what does Besso wonder about?
(a) Why he ever started this friendship with Einstein.
(b) Einstein's plans for the future.
(c) What his wife has cooked for dinner.
(d) Why he is not the man Einstein is.
5. According to the narrator, what do parents treasure given they think they may not witness it again?
(a) Their child's first words.
(b) Their child's first cry.
(c) Their child's first smile.
(d) Their child's first laugh.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the narrator, without commitment there is what?
2. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, who makes pilgrimages to the center of time?
3. Why does Einstein want to understand time?
4. What is the man on the fourth floor balcony looking down at?
5. Who is the woman saying goodbye to in the hospital on Gerberngasse?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do people in the 26 April 1905 dream choose to live in the mountains?
2. According to the first Interlude, why is Besso worried about Einstein?
3. Why does Besso believe that there are problems with Einstein's reasoning behind his creation of a theory of time?
4. Why are some people unhappy in the world where time exists as a circle?
5. What is the problem living life within the confines of solitary moments? (14 April 1905)
6. How does Einstein's desk differ from the others in the patent office?
7. How can one identify people who have been transported back in time? (16 April 1905)
8. At the end of the 26 April 1905 dream, what are the negative effects of living in the mountains?
9. What do the untidy people of the 11 May 1905 world do in life?
10. Why is there no communication between people of the present and people from the future? (16 April 1905)
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