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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 is the last image readers are left with at the end of the "15 May 1905" dream?
(a) A yellow brush.
(b) A broken watch.
(c) A clock with pendulum stuck mid-swing.
(d) A book lying on a table.

2. According to the narrator, what did scientists discover in the past?
(a) That time never forgets its past.
(b) That time moves faster the farther one is from the center of the earth.
(c) That time has "blips" that stop all things living.
(d) That time moves slower the farther one is from the center of the earth.

3. Where is the young man's theory of time to be mailed?
(a) The German journal of physics.
(b) The European journal of physics.
(c) The Swiss journal of physics.
(d) The American journal of physics.

4. 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?
(a) They are pitied.
(b) They are honored.
(c) They are feared.
(d) They are immortalized.

5. According to the "4 May 1905" dream, "If time and the passage of events are the same" what happens to time?
(a) People barely move at all.
(b) Time barely moves at all.
(c) Time moves very fast.
(d) People move very fast.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the world in the "15 May 1905" exist?

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

3. Why does Einstein sneak away from his wife in the middle of the night?

4. In the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream, what does the passage of time bring?

5. In the "10 May 1905" dream, why is one man sitting at a table weeping uncontrollably?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens one month before the world ends?

4. What happens every day for the townspeople of Berne? (28 April 1905)

5. Why do schools close one year before the end of the world?

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

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

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

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

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

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