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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 refers to an expression or a proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities?
(a) Vector.
(b) Theorem.
(c) Hypothesis.
(d) Equation.

2. In Chapter 9, the narrator notes that he has been in his time capsule for about how long?
(a) 19 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 15 years.

3. Chapter 3 begins with the protagonist thinking about his father reading a storybook to him when he was what age?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose face does the narrator claim he sees his own turning into in the mirror in Chapter 1?

2. What occupation does Charles have in the narrative?

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

4. In Chapter 8, Charles makes a call to a client where?

5. An excerpt from "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", called "size of," describes Universe 31 as being smaller than what?

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