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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Phil start to do before he crashes in Chapter 7?
(a) Stutter.
(b) Appologize.
(c) Yell.
(d) Cry.

2. What occupation did Charles's father have?
(a) Movie star.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Writer.

3. What is the name of the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) New Los Angeles/Lost Tokyo-2.
(b) New Angeles City/Old Mexico City.
(c) San Francisco 4.
(d) Space Hub Miami.

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

5. Who is credited with the first quote in the book, which begins, "We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception"?
(a) David Deutsch.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Luke Skywalker.

6. What happened to the rest of the United States when Los Angeles and New York City merged, creating the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) It became a different country.
(b) It was demolished.
(c) It merged with Chicago.
(d) It was swallowed.

7. In Chapter 9, the narrator notes that he has been in his time capsule for about how long?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 19 years.
(d) 15 years.

8. What refers to the original or model on which something is based or formed?
(a) Patent.
(b) Prototype.
(c) Rough draft.
(d) Schematic.

9. 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) Nostalgia.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Memories.
(d) Regret.

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

11. Charles and Ed view a street performance of what in Chapter 11?
(a) The Big Bang.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Phantom of the Opera.
(d) Star Wars.

12. The capital city of Universe 31 is how big in relation to the size of New York City?
(a) One-fifth.
(b) One-third.
(c) One-half.
(d) One-fourth.

13. An excerpt from "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", called "size of," describes Universe 31 as being smaller than what?
(a) The city of Chicago.
(b) An aquarium.
(c) A coin.
(d) A football stadium.

14. Before landing in Chapter 10, Charles sees a man who resembles himself, and he can see that the man's life is made entirely of what?
(a) Time.
(b) Lies.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

15. Charles works as an affiliate contractor for what company?
(a) Time by Sony.
(b) Microsoft Time Corporation.
(c) Time Warner Time.
(d) Wells Fargo Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the diagram of CY's time loop, the notes indicate that CY is who?

2. What does Charles's mother complain about when she speaks to him in Chapter 13?

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

4. TM-31 is about the size of what?

5. Charles's mother cashed in her retirement funds to buy how many years of reliving in a continuing loop?

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