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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 happens to the woman described in the "2 June 1905" dream?
(a) She awakens each day not knowing how old she will be.
(b) She grows younger.
(c) She grows younger rapidly from old woman to young woman in less than a week.
(d) She grows younger but with significantly devastating side effects.

2. According to the narrator, in the world described in the "22 May 1905" dream, what happens to people who have not had "their vision"?
(a) Their world is one of constant reminders of deeds gone wrong.
(b) Their world is one of constant success.
(c) Their world is one of inactive suspense.
(d) Their world is one of inevitable failures.

3. According to the dream on 3 June 1905, what is life a brief movement of?
(a) A clock hand.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Arms and legs.
(d) A snowflake.

4. In the "15 June 1905" dream, how many years in the future does the young woman go?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

5. Who is carried into the woman's home (in the "2 June 1905" dream)?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the middle-aged man receive during the "2 June 1905" dream?

2. What happens to the people in the world, described in the "10 June 1905" dream, who attempt to quantify time?

3. Who is responsible for discovering the "speed effect?"

4. What does the narrator want readers to imagine in the "3 June 1905" dream?

5. How does the narrator describe births, marriages, and deaths in the 15 June 1905 dream?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the biggest problem associated with living in the 20 May 1905 world?

6. According to the 3 June 1905 dream, describe how a person born in December exists.

7. Why does the young man in the 17 June 1905 dream leave his lover and tell her he cannot see her again?

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

9. What has the young woman at no. 27 Viktoriastrasse missed in her life because of the sudden thrust into the future?

10. How does the narrator describe the phenomenon of people only living one day in the 3 June 1905 dream?

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