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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?
(a) "Traditional Theory of Time."
(b) "Tenseless Theory of Time."
(c) "Turbulent Theory of Time."
(d) "Tensed Theory of Time."

2. What happened to the rest of the United States when Los Angeles and New York City merged, creating the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) It became a different country.
(b) It merged with Chicago.
(c) It was swallowed.
(d) It was demolished.

3. In Chapter 9, the narrator returns in memory to his youth, when he watched his father make sketches of what?
(a) Airplanes.
(b) Landscapes.
(c) Alternate universes.
(d) Various animals.

4. Charles's mother cashed in her retirement funds to buy how many years of reliving in a continuing loop?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

5. Phil, a middle-manager and Charles's supervisor at headquarters, is also what?
(a) A Mormon.
(b) A Catholic.
(c) A super intelligent space chimp.
(d) A software program.

Short Answer Questions

1. Phil is described by the narrator as easygoing, but he thinks he's what?

2. In Charles' memory in Chapter 12, his father talks to him as his mind wanders to an advertisement he saw in a comic book for what?

3. What is the name of Charles's time machine?

4. As his mother's time loop ends, what does Charles do to snap her out of it in Chapter 13?

5. What refers to a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 3 begin? What is significant about time travel in this chapter?

2. What has caused the problem with the narrator's ship in Chapter 10? What is symbolic about this?

3. How is the size of Universe 31 described in the novel?

4. Discuss the metaphor for time travel and its relation to the narrator's father in Chapter 3. What does the symbolism say about the narrator's father?

5. Where is client the narrator contacts in Chapter 8? What did she use her time machine for?

6. What robotic services are described in the excerpt "convenience, particular sadness of"?

7. What is metaphorical about the narrator's visit to see his mother in Chapter 13?

8. How are the setting and protagonist of the novel described in Chapter 1?

9. How does the narrator describe being in Loop City in Chapter 11?

10. What leads to Charles's outburst in Chapter 15? What does he discover on the ship?

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