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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles misused what device by cruising too often in Present Indefinite in Chapter 10?
(a) The Tense Operator.
(b) The Distracted Captain.
(c) The Lazy Admiral.
(d) The Drowsy Pilot.

2. What is a suspension in air of words and images which Charles peers into on the subway in Chapter 11?
(a) A opinion slate.
(b) A news cloud.
(c) A swarm of thought.
(d) A thought fog.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is not sure the capsule will make it back safely to headquarters in Chapter 10?

2. Charles and Ed watch buskers playing what kind of music in Chapter 11?

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

4. In Chapter 5, the protagonist recalls that when he played as a boy, everyone wanted to be whom?

5. What statement follows "When it happens, this is what happens" in the opening of the book?

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