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

2. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?
(a) A circle.
(b) An ellipse.
(c) An arc.
(d) A sphere.

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

4. According to the narrator, what are people in a world of only one day?
(a) Accepting.
(b) Equal.
(c) Saddened.
(d) Excited.

5. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, why do children who have left the city curse their parents?
(a) For extending their life.
(b) For bearing them in the first place.
(c) For loving them too much.
(d) For trying to hold them forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the "28 April 1905" dream, what is visible in all places?

2. In the world described in the "11 May 1905" dream, what happens in the springtime?

3. On the last day of the world, who are the people with the unnatural smiles?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens when there is only one day until the end of the world?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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