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

2. Phil, a middle-manager and Charles's supervisor at headquarters, is also what?
(a) A software program.
(b) A Catholic.
(c) A Mormon.
(d) A super intelligent space chimp.

3. An excerpt titled "Wineberg-Takayma Radius" discusses the proposition that a universe must be no larger than a certain size if it is to produce what?
(a) A coherent, sustainable narration.
(b) A pure energy.
(c) Light.
(d) Gravity.

4. In Chapter 30, the book shows that time experienced by a time traveler is different from time measured by whom?
(a) The internet.
(b) Children.
(c) Watch makers.
(d) Those not time-traveling.

5. What refers to the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time?
(a) Carbon copy.
(b) Psychic moment.
(c) Deja vu.
(d) Fond memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. An excerpt called "decoherence and wave function collapse" says that a unified theory of chronodiegetics would combine the forces of regret, counterfactual elements and what?

2. What is the name of Charles's time capsule's on-board computer?

3. What refers to change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift?

4. Chapter 14 begins with a repeat of the warning that when "it" happens, Charles does what?

5. How old is Charles when he hears his father working in the garage on something more powerful than a mere time machine in Chapter 26?

(see the answer key)

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