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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. On the last day of the world, who are the people with the unnatural smiles?
(a) Those who have not yet atoned for their sins.
(b) Those who are attempting to correct misdeeds.
(c) Those who do not think the world is going to end.
(d) Those who are stealing.

2. What is curious about the town in the "10 May 1905" dream?
(a) The town exists in three different time periods.
(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 two centuries in the past.

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

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

5. According to the narrator, what is the room full of?
(a) Practical ideas.
(b) Too many hopes to account for.
(c) Dreams and desires.
(d) Fluttering beliefs of accomplishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tragedy of the world described in the "10 May 1905" dream?

2. Why does Einstein want to understand time?

3. What is time compared to in the "16 April 1905" dream?

4. How many dimensions does the man in the leather coat live in simultaneously?

5. Where is Besso's visitor from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Besso think that Einstein is capable of anything?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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