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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What first prototype time machine does Charles recall in Chapter 21?
(a) The Time Traveler 5500.
(b) The XM-25 Time Travel Module.
(c) The UTM-1.
(d) The TM-1000.

3. In Chapter 27, Charles's capsule is running out of fuel, and they must soon return to headquarters where Charles knows he will do what?
(a) Get fired.
(b) Get thrown in jail.
(c) Buy another dog.
(d) Shoot his future self.

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

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

6. An excerpt called "decoherence and wave function collapse" says that a unified theory of chronodiegetics would combine the forces of regret, counterfactual elements and what?
(a) Luck.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Achievement.
(d) Joy.

7. What is defined as a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape?
(a) Black hole.
(b) Nebula.
(c) Galaxy.
(d) Dark Moon.

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

9. In Chapter 30, Charles realizes that in order to escape the time loop, he must do what?
(a) Reprogram TAMMY.
(b) Get out of the time capsule.
(c) Not murder his future self.
(d) Get rid of Ed.

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

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

12. A book excerpt,"TM-31 calibration protocol," describes the calibration process as putting sensors on one's fingertips and waiting for how long?
(a) 35 seconds.
(b) 43 seconds.
(c) 15 seconds.
(d) 85 seconds.

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

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) Just daydreaming.
(b) A skill required for survival.
(c) An evolutionary trait.
(d) Counterproductive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time?

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

3. In Appendix A, Charles is told to be angered by his father's explanation that he never intended to leave, but also be what?

4. In Chapter 24, Charles's father says the equations indicate their machine is doing what?

5. 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.

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