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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What first prototype time machine does Charles recall in Chapter 21?
(a) The UTM-1.
(b) The TM-1000.
(c) The XM-25 Time Travel Module.
(d) The Time Traveler 5500.

2. A book excerpt called "in the event you find yourself trapped in a time loop" gives the time loop victim advice, such as to look for the sequence of events in the loop, to accept blame for it, and to guard against entering what?
(a) Black holes.
(b) Magnetic fields.
(c) Hostile planets.
(d) An alternate universe.

3. Who does the shuttle driver turn out to be in Chapter 20?
(a) Charles.
(b) The repair bot.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Phil.

4. Specifically, Charles's occupational title is "certified network technician" for what devices?
(a) T-Class personal-use chronogrammatical vehicles.
(b) R-type personal time machines.
(c) F-grade family time transporters.
(d) Q-724 Skywalkers.

5. 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"?
(a) David Deutsch.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Luke Skywalker.
(d) David Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to that which is concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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