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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The excerpt "conjectures, currently unproven but believed to be true" posits that a moment has measurable substance, there are fine numbers of moments, there is no global time, and ______ is a theory of regret and limitations.
(a) Chrononucleosis.
(b) Chronogeometry.
(c) Chronodiegetics.
(d) Chronoluminescence.

2. Charles thinks in Chapter 20 of how his mother always would ask for what in an utterly unembarrassed way?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) The truth.
(d) The mail.

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

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) 6.
(b) 17.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

5. Who does Charles see after a bell sounds in Chapter 20?
(a) The Woman My Mother Should Have Been.
(b) Ed.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His father.

6. Charles realizes in Chapter 20 that the room he is in is a construct of what?
(a) His perfect world.
(b) His father's ideal life.
(c) His private hell.
(d) A world without change.

7. The morning after Charles and his father meet with the institute director, his father does what?
(a) Destroys the time machine.
(b) Buys him breakfast.
(c) Drives away and does not return all day.
(d) Works on the time machine.

8. Chapter 22 describes the first time-travel trip taken by Charles and his father in a machine they built where?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the back yard.
(c) In an aircraft hanger.
(d) In the garage.

9. In Chapter 17, TAMMY analyzes the text and declares that it has been what?
(a) Translated from Polish.
(b) Written in pencil.
(c) Copied many times.
(d) Plagiarized.

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

11. TAMMY's software has no way of distinguishing exact patterns repeated within what?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Space time.
(c) Books.
(d) A set time frame.

12. In Chapter 27, Charles asks TAMMY to calculate the odds of what?
(a) Him finding his father.
(b) Him winning the lottery.
(c) Him escaping the time loop.
(d) The time machine running out of fuel.

13. What time does the clock show in the scene of the kitchen in Charles's boyhood home in Chapter 28?
(a) 4:12:33.
(b) 1:46:55.
(c) 11:12:13.
(d) 7:14:20.

14. Charles's father is how old at the start of Chapter 25?
(a) 49.
(b) 66.
(c) 55.
(d) 61.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 25, Charles's father talks slowly about the invention, saying that the key is "the acquisition of" what?

2. What is defined as a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape?

3. An excerpt called "residual objects in closed time-like curves" describes the hypothetical "Book from _____."

4. What refers to knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight?

5. It occurs to Charles in Chapter 20 that desire is what?

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