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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, the narrator returns in memory to his youth, when he watched his father make sketches of what?
(a) Various animals.
(b) Landscapes.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Alternate universes.

2. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "B Series"?
(a) "Tenseless Theory of Time."
(b) "Tensed Theory of Time."
(c) "Turbulent Theory of Time."
(d) "Traditional Theory of Time."

3. In Chapter 9, Charles claims to have had a one-night stand with a human-like creature once, but he has even given up coin-operated ____ because they're not much fun.
(a) Adult movies.
(b) Animal prostitutes.
(c) Candy machines.
(d) Sexbots.

4. By what name does Charles also refer to as The Women I Never Married?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Tracy.
(c) Marie.
(d) Chelsea.

5. What occupation does Charles have in the narrative?
(a) Astrophysicist.
(b) Meteorologist.
(c) Time machine repairman.
(d) Spaceship Captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles believes the present and chronology are overrated because most people who move ahead in time are always doing what?

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

3. Charles describes his job as part of what industry in Chapter 8?

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

5. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?

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