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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Phil warns Charles that his time machine is overdue for what in Chapter 7?
(a) A wash.
(b) A maintenance check.
(c) Emptying the sewage tank.
(d) A software upgrade.

2. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?
(a) Run from himself.
(b) Scold himself.
(c) Cry.
(d) Shoot himself.

3. In what person is the book written?
(a) First.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Second.

4. In Chapter 9, Charles says time is a machine for converting pain into what that cannot be changed?
(a) Memories.
(b) History.
(c) Love.
(d) Bliss.

5. What does the narrator claim hurts him in Chapter 1?
(a) His gums.
(b) His foot.
(c) His ear.
(d) His elbow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Phil is described by the narrator as easygoing, but he thinks he's what?

2. TM-31 is about the size of what?

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

4. 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"?

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

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