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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles's father makes the discovery that what can be a time machine in Chapter 24?
(a) Cars but not boats.
(b) Anything.
(c) Only metal objects.
(d) Only wooden vessels.

2. What is on the smaller box inside the wrapped box from Charles's mother in Chapter 28?
(a) A keyhole.
(b) Kind words.
(c) A drawing.
(d) Wrapping paper.

3. What is defined as a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable?
(a) Phenomenon.
(b) Event.
(c) Coincidence.
(d) Happening.

4. In Chapter 24, Charles's father says the equations indicate their machine is doing what?
(a) Producing radiation.
(b) Colliding with other figures.
(c) Wasting energy.
(d) Miscalculating time.

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

6. When Charles's father climbs into the time machine in Chapter 25, what happens?
(a) He disappears.
(b) The sky opens.
(c) A fire breaks out.
(d) It doesn't work.

7. What refers to the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time?
(a) Fond memory.
(b) Psychic moment.
(c) Carbon copy.
(d) Deja vu.

8. What refers to that which is concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Science.
(c) Geological.
(d) Metaphysical.

9. In Chapter 21, Charles looks from the capsule and sees what that appears to be what giant object?
(a) A car.
(b) A tent.
(c) An aquarium.
(d) A rollercoaster.

10. 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) Development.
(b) Breeding.
(c) Evolution.
(d) Deformation.

11. In Chapter 24, Charles gets a call from whom, but TAMMY tells him not to take it because he is stuck in a time loop?
(a) Phil.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

12. The maiden voyage of the time machine in Chapter 22 is a technical failure because Charles and his father had not figured out what?
(a) How to control the vehicle.
(b) The rules of time travel.
(c) How to return to their starting point.
(d) How to land the vehicle.

13. How old is Charles in the memory of himself and his family in Chapter 23?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

14. Charles's father's theory described in Chapter 25 is that humans can tell they are in the present and are not simply remembering a past event because it is what?
(a) A skill required for survival.
(b) An evolutionary trait.
(c) Counterproductive.
(d) Just daydreaming.

15. What does Charles knock over in his attempt to escape in Chapter 20?
(a) A sexbot.
(b) An urn.
(c) A lamp.
(d) A chair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 30, Charles asks TAMMY how long they were in the loop and she replies that time never moved forward after he shot himself, because he tried to skip forward in time and entered what?

3. What does the woman in Chapter 20 tell Charles when he asks if his father is here?

4. In Chapter 27, Charles asks TAMMY to calculate the odds of what?

5. 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?

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