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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 merged with Chicago.
(b) It was demolished.
(c) It became a different country.
(d) It was swallowed.

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

5. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives is of what?
(a) A Sunday dinner.
(b) Watching her favorite movie.
(c) Giving birth to Charles.
(d) Her wedding day.

6. In what person is the book written?
(a) Fourth.
(b) First.
(c) Second.
(d) Third.

7. What is the name of Charles's time machine?
(a) The Dawn of Time.
(b) The TM-31 Recreational Time Travel Device.
(c) The Key to the Past.
(d) The TTD-84 Timewarper.

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

9. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?
(a) Run from himself.
(b) Cry.
(c) Shoot himself.
(d) Scold himself.

10. An excerpt called "corporate ownership of" says Universe 31 was sold by its first owners to what company?
(a) Walmart.
(b) Time Warner Time.
(c) General Motors.
(d) Monsanto.

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

12. Charles and Ed watch buskers playing what kind of music in Chapter 11?
(a) Eleven-dimensional.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Country-dimensional.
(d) Rock and Roll.

13. Charles stays in shape in his machine by lifting what as a weight?
(a) His toolbox.
(b) His dog.
(c) A water jug.
(d) Spare parts.

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

15. A book excerpt, "reality, in relation to," says Universe 31 is what percent reality at the core?
(a) 17.
(b) 65.
(c) 44.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, Charles claims to have had a one-night stand with a human-like creature once, but he has even given up coin-operated ____ because they're not much fun.

2. Charles describes standing at the center of Loop City as like being a character within what?

3. In Charles' memory in Chapter 12, his father talks to him as his mind wanders to an advertisement he saw in a comic book for what?

4. 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?

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

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