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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The institution Charles and his father visit in Chapter 25 represents what to Charles's father?
(a) The hallowed halls of scientific achievement.
(b) The power of the human brain.
(c) A life with many regrets.
(d) A life full of achievement.

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

3. Charles and his father are on their way to show their time machine to the director of what institution in Chapter 25?
(a) The Institute of the Cosmos.
(b) The Institute of Conceptual Technology.
(c) The Time Traveler Institute.
(d) The Institute of Space Time.

4. A book excerpt,"TM-31 calibration protocol," concludes that a time machine can only go where?
(a) Into the past.
(b) Into the future.
(c) Where it is programmed to go.
(d) Where the person wants it to go.

5. The excerpt "theorems, miscellaneous" contains only the statement that sooner or later, a time will come when the next day, a person will what?
(a) Wither away.
(b) See the truth.
(c) Lose everything.
(d) Confront the past.

6. In Chapter 20, Charles realizes that the shoes he had seen belonged to whom?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Linus Skywalker.
(d) Himself.

7. Near Charles in the beginning of Chapter 20, he sees what familiar-seeming objects?
(a) Computer parts.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Lamps.

8. What is the title of Appendix A?
(a) "THE DANGERS OF TIME TRAVEL."
(b) "ESCAPING A TIME LOOP."
(c) "HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE."
(d) "THE MISPROGRAMMING OF TAMMY."

9. What refers to an estimation of probability; forecast?
(a) Prediction.
(b) Odds.
(c) Calculation.
(d) Horoscope.

10. Chapter 20 opens with Charles standing in a temple before various statues of whom?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Buddha.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Zeus.

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

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

13. In Chapter 18, Charles cannot see why he should not just jump forward in time, to when what is finished?
(a) His life.
(b) Ed's life.
(c) The book.
(d) Time.

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) Counterproductive.
(c) An evolutionary trait.
(d) Just daydreaming.

15. 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) 20.
(c) 17.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles knock over in his attempt to escape in Chapter 20?

2. In Chapter 21, Charles looks from the capsule and sees what that appears to be what giant object?

3. Charles's father makes the discovery that what can be a time machine in Chapter 24?

4. Chapter 19 shows Charles opening the time capsule hatch and finding what message?

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

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