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

2. A book excerpt, "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for," describes what as the human feeling of missing a familiar place never visited or fruitlessly longing to be another version of oneself?
(a) Memories.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Regret.
(d) Nostalgia.

3. What refers to a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula?
(a) Hypothesis.
(b) Theorem.
(c) Equation.
(d) Vector.

4. TM-31 is about the size of what?
(a) A small bus.
(b) A jumbo jet.
(c) A hotel shower.
(d) A pickup truck.

5. Who is credited in the beginning of the book for the quote, "Everything we are is at every moment alive in us"?
(a) David Hume.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Luke Skywalker.
(d) David Deutsch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives lasts for how long in a hypothetical period of her life?

3. What is the name of Charles's time machine?

4. Charles rescued his dog as he was about to drift into what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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