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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28-31 and Appendix A.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 10, the narrator realizes he must return to corporate HQ for what reason?
(a) Additional training.
(b) Maintenance on his vehicle.
(c) A promotion ceremony.
(d) To attend a meeting.

2. The maiden voyage of the time machine in Chapter 22 is a technical failure because Charles and his father had not figured out what?
(a) How to control the vehicle.
(b) The rules of time travel.
(c) How to land the vehicle.
(d) How to return to their starting point.

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

4. Chapter 19 shows Charles opening the time capsule hatch and finding what message?
(a) "Instructions for a happy life."
(b) "[this page left intentionally blank]."
(c) "I did the best I could."
(d) "NOTES."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 20 opens with Charles standing in a temple before various statues of whom?

2. What refers to a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula?

3. What is a suspension in air of words and images which Charles peers into on the subway in Chapter 11?

4. What does Charles experience at the end of Chapter 19?

5. The institution Charles and his father visit in Chapter 25 represents what to Charles's father?

(see the answer key)

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