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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. When does Besso remember looking like Einstein as he is now (second Interlude)?
(a) When Besso's wife was diagnosed with a fatal illness.
(b) When Besso's son died.
(c) When Besso found out he was losing his job.
(d) When Besso's father died.

2. In the "2 June 1905" dream, how does the story of the woman end?
(a) The "woman" nursing.
(b) The "woman" at her birth.
(c) The "woman" at her graduation from gymnasium.
(d) The "woman" in her mother's womb.

3. Why does the man at the graveside ("2 June 1905" dream) not weep for his friend?
(a) The man has no tears left given his friend has had a very long sickness leading up to his death.
(b) The man believes in a second life better than the first.
(c) His friend lived a very good life and he refuses to mourn him.
(d) His friend will be with him again given that time moves backward in this world.

4. According to Besso, what does Einstein live without?
(a) Passion.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Pain.

5. Where is Einstein looking as the second Interlude comes to a close?
(a) Towards the town clock.
(b) Into space.
(c) Towards the Bernese Alps.
(d) Towards Aare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with the people who live in the world described in the "20 May 1905" dream?

2. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, how does the world exist?

3. Who is carried into the woman's home (in the "2 June 1905" dream)?

4. Where are Besso and Einstein sitting in the second Interlude?

5. What is the young woman staring at in the end of the "15 June 1905" dream?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What options do people have when it comes to reading their Book of Life?

2. In the second Interlude, to what does Besso compare Einstein's present health?

3. Describe the way that time is experienced in the 5 June 1905 dream.

4. How did the notion of the speed effect come to be known?

5. Describe what happens between the baker and the woman in the 17 June 1905 dream.

6. Describe the two different views people of the 15 June 1905 world can have.

7. Why do sunset and sunrise babies become frightened when the light changes?

8. How does the narrator describe time in the 17 June 1905 dream?

9. How does the narrator describe a world without a future?

10. Describe the cafe that stands on the corner of Kramgasse and Theaterplatz.

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