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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) David Hume.
(c) Luke Skywalker.
(d) Arthur Miller.

2. Charles's mother cashed in her retirement funds to buy how many years of reliving in a continuing loop?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

3. What statement follows "When it happens, this is what happens" in the opening of the book?
(a) "I hate myself."
(b) "I forget myself."
(c) "I shoot myself."
(d) "I love myself."

4. What refers to a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula?
(a) Theorem.
(b) Equation.
(c) Hypothesis.
(d) Vector.

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

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

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

8. Phil warns Charles that his time machine is overdue for what in Chapter 7?
(a) A maintenance check.
(b) A wash.
(c) A software upgrade.
(d) Emptying the sewage tank.

9. 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?
(a) A satellite phone.
(b) X-ray glasses.
(c) A light saber.
(d) A Chrono-Adventurer Survival Kit.

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

11. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives lasts for how long in a hypothetical period of her life?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 60 minutes.
(c) 2 hours.
(d) 6 hours.

12. Phil is described by the narrator as easygoing, but he thinks he's what?
(a) A woman on the inside.
(b) Worthless.
(c) A real person.
(d) Doomed.

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

14. 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?
(a) Black holes.
(b) An alternate universe.
(c) Magnetic fields.
(d) Hostile planets.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 9, Charles says time is a machine for converting pain into what that cannot be changed?

4. In Chapter 14, Charles awakens late and rushes where to get his repaired capsule?

5. An excerpt from "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", called "size of," describes Universe 31 as being smaller than what?

(see the answer keys)

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