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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Charles's time capsule's on-board computer?
(a) ROBIN.
(b) MARTHA.
(c) TAMMY.
(d) ED.

2. Who is credited in the beginning of the book for the quote, "Time does not flow. Other times are just special cases of other universes"?
(a) David Hume.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Luke Skywalker.
(d) David Deutsch.

3. Charles describes his job as part of what industry in Chapter 8?
(a) "The terrible memories industry."
(b) "The pain and crying industry."
(c) "The self-consciousness industry."
(d) "The what went wrong industry."

4. The inhabitants of Universe 31 say it has a wide what, based on the concept of the place?
(a) Variety of life forms.
(b) Political focus.
(c) Psychological scale.
(d) Imagined space.

5. Charles works as an affiliate contractor for what company?
(a) Wells Fargo Time.
(b) Microsoft Time Corporation.
(c) Time Warner Time.
(d) Time by Sony.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, Charles tells the client she has used her time machine to go into an alternate past where she was present when who was dying?

2. What has the Tense Operator been set to for some time in Chapter 1?

3. What refers to an expression or a proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities?

4. Who is credited with the first quote in the book, which begins, "We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception"?

5. What occupation did Charles's father have?

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