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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What date does the wall calendar show in the scene of the kitchen in Charles's boyhood home in Chapter 28?
(a) May 1, 1989.
(b) June 27, 1983.
(c) April 14, 1986.
(d) January 7, 1985.

2. What does Charles find inside the box in Chapter 28?
(a) Money.
(b) Spare parts for the time machine.
(c) A Chrono-Adventurer Survival Kit.
(d) A book.

3. What refers to logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability?
(a) Coherence.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Sobriety.

4. 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?
(a) 17.
(b) 6.
(c) 20.
(d) 25.

5. 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?
(a) Deformation.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Breeding.
(d) Development.

6. The institution that Charles and his father are going to in Chapter 25 is an imposing building where?
(a) Next to a river.
(b) In the middle of the woods.
(c) On a hill above town.
(d) In the center of a wide valley.

7. What refers to a plan, procedure, or expedient for promoting a desired end or result?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Action.
(c) Tactic.
(d) Motivation.

8. Chapter 22 describes the first time-travel trip taken by Charles and his father which lasted how long?
(a) Less than a minute.
(b) Five seconds.
(c) Seven minutes.
(d) Five minutes.

9. In Chapter 25, Charles's father talks slowly about the invention, saying that the key is "the acquisition of" what?
(a) "Dark matter."
(b) "A flux capacitor."
(c) "Tensed information."
(d) "Space time."

10. Charles had punished his father with silence for how long after his mother left the home?
(a) 21 days.
(b) 9 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 14 days.

11. It occurs to Charles in Chapter 20 that desire is what?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Bliss.
(c) Futile.
(d) Motivation.

12. What refers to that having existed in, or having occurred during a time previous to the present?
(a) Memory.
(b) Beforehand.
(c) Past.
(d) Ancient.

13. Charles and his father's main discovery in Chapter 22 is that time travel does what?
(a) Is evil.
(b) Takes up time.
(c) Is too dangerous.
(d) Is instantaneous.

14. In Chapter 23, TAMMY begins to cry, but Ed does what which makes her laugh?
(a) Barks.
(b) Licks her.
(c) Breaks wind.
(d) Rolls over three times.

15. What does Charles experience at the end of Chapter 19?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Death.
(c) Suffocation.
(d) Nothingness.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Charles's request in Chapter 27, TAMMY calculates the probability of the occurrence discussed as once every how many years?

2. In Chapter 16, Charles examines the book from the future, which is part autobiography and part what?

3. When Charles's father climbs into the time machine in Chapter 25, what happens?

4. Despite the fact that TAMMY and TOAD tell him it is a bad idea, Charles keys in the instructions to do what in Chapter 18?

5. Who does Charles ask the shuttle driver to pick up in Chapter 20?

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