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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. Charles works as an affiliate contractor for what company?
(a) Microsoft Time Corporation.
(b) Time by Sony.
(c) Time Warner Time.
(d) Wells Fargo 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 was swallowed.
(b) It merged with Chicago.
(c) It became a different country.
(d) It was demolished.

3. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?
(a) Cry.
(b) Shoot himself.
(c) Run from himself.
(d) Scold himself.

4. In Chapter 15, Phil tells Charles to return to headquarters and they will go out together for what?
(a) A beer.
(b) A baseball game.
(c) A movie.
(d) A steak.

5. In Chapter 12, the narrator remembers being driven home from the park at what age by his father?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles rescued his dog as he was about to drift into what?

2. In Chapter 15, where is Charles feeling throbbing pain?

3. What statement follows "When it happens, this is what happens" in the opening of the book?

4. In Chapter 9, the narrator returns in memory to his youth, when he watched his father make sketches of what?

5. In Chapter 5, the protagonist recalls that when he played as a boy, everyone wanted to be whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the correlation between human emotion and time travel symbolized in Chapter 9?

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

3. What is significant about the narrator's memory of his father in Chapter 12?

4. How is nostalgia defined in the excerpt "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for"?

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

6. How does the author explore the genre of metafiction in the novel?

7. What does the theme park in Loop City symbolize?

8. What is revealed about the narrator in Chapter 14?

9. How does the narrator relate to TAMMY? What is her character like?

10. What is the reality of the setting like in the novel? How does the author express the abstractions of the setting?

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