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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 14, Charles pulls his gun and shoots his future self just as the victim is telling him that everything is what?
(a) In the book.
(b) Elementary.
(c) Futile.
(d) Love.

2. What customers want, Charles says, is to repeatedly experience the _____ moments of their lives repeatedly.
(a) Warmest.
(b) Worst.
(c) Most loving.
(d) Greatest.

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

4. What is defined as occurring when a time traveler stops remembering in order to keep going?
(a) A lapse in time.
(b) A loop in time.
(c) A break in time.
(d) A loss of time.

5. Charles believes the present and chronology are overrated because most people who move ahead in time are always doing what?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Checking the calendar.
(c) Looking back.
(d) Regretting their past.

6. What refers to an expression or a proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities?
(a) Hypothesis.
(b) Equation.
(c) Vector.
(d) Theorem.

7. What occupation does Charles have in the narrative?
(a) Astrophysicist.
(b) Time machine repairman.
(c) Meteorologist.
(d) Spaceship Captain.

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

9. How does Charles enter his family's home in Chapter 13?
(a) Through an open window.
(b) By the fire escape.
(c) Through the chimney.
(d) Through an unlocked door.

10. What is the most common nickname of the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) City of Rain.
(b) Loop City.
(c) Flat City.
(d) City of Light.

11. 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) Regret.
(c) Memories.
(d) Imagination.

12. In Chapter 8, Charles makes a call to a client located in what time period?
(a) Early 20th century.
(b) Mid 20th century.
(c) Early 21st century.
(d) Late 20th century.

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

14. The inhabitants of Universe 31 say it has a wide what, based on the concept of the place?
(a) Psychological scale.
(b) Imagined space.
(c) Variety of life forms.
(d) Political focus.

15. What does Charles see interacting with his mother when he visits his family's home in Chapter 13?
(a) A group of cats.
(b) His father.
(c) A sexbot.
(d) A hologram of himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?

2. By what name does Charles also refer to as The Women I Never Married?

3. In Chapter 12, the narrator remembers being driven home from the park at what age by his father?

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

5. An excerpt titled, "capital city" says the capital of Universe 31 contains what percent of the universe's robot population?

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