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

2. What is the name of Basso's wife?
(a) Svea.
(b) Viveka.
(c) Anna.
(d) Freja.

3. What happens to time in the "14 May 1905" dream?
(a) Time is set in a constant loop.
(b) Time is sped up.
(c) Time moves slowly.
(d) Time stands still.

4. What is the woman in the shadows waiting for?
(a) To be carried back to her own time.
(b) To be arrested so she can keep her timeline of life intact.
(c) To hear the church bells chime three times.
(d) To hear a cardinal sing.

5. What does the narrator say people transported to the past fear?
(a) They fear not knowing how to act.
(b) Nothing. They are not aware of the time transfer.
(c) A change they make in the past could affect the future.
(d) Making the same mistakes they made in the "future."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say about a world with no time?

3. Why does Einstein want to understand time?

4. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?

5. What do travelers from the future envy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do the untidy people of the 11 May 1905 world do in life?

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

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

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

10. Why are some people unhappy in the world where time exists as a circle?

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