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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. A book excerpt, "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for," describes what as the human feeling of missing a familiar place never visited or fruitlessly longing to be another version of oneself?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Regret.
(c) Memories.
(d) Nostalgia.

2. An excerpt called "corporate ownership of" says Universe 31 was sold by its first owners to what company?
(a) General Motors.
(b) Walmart.
(c) Monsanto.
(d) Time Warner Time.

3. As his mother's time loop ends, what does Charles do to snap her out of it in Chapter 13?
(a) Yells at her.
(b) Uses a computer to stop the loop.
(c) Stomps his foot.
(d) Taps on the window.

4. What does Phil start to do before he crashes in Chapter 7?
(a) Cry.
(b) Stutter.
(c) Appologize.
(d) Yell.

5. By what name does Charles also refer to as The Women I Never Married?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Marie.
(c) Tracy.
(d) Chelsea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an expression or a proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities?

2. In Chapter 9, Charles claims to have had a one-night stand with a human-like creature once, but he has even given up coin-operated ____ because they're not much fun.

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

4. Who is credited with the first quote in the book, which begins, "We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception"?

5. A book excerpt, "reality, in relation to," says Universe 31 is what percent reality at the core?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problem does the narrator discover with his ship in Chapter 10?

2. How is the narrator's existence metaphorical for contemporary society?

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

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

5. What is revealed about Universe 31 in the excerpt "reality, in relation to"?

6. What does the narrator say his mother taught him in Chapter 13? What is significant about this?

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

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

9. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

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

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