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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 Chapter 13, the narrator is hit with the realization that he has let a decade slip away, but he doesn't feel like what?
(a) Wasting any more time.
(b) Catching up with anyone.
(c) Justifying it.
(d) Achieving anything.

2. What is a suspension in air of words and images which Charles peers into on the subway in Chapter 11?
(a) A swarm of thought.
(b) A opinion slate.
(c) A news cloud.
(d) A thought fog.

3. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives lasts for how long in a hypothetical period of her life?
(a) 60 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 6 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

4. An excerpt titled, "capital city" says the capital of Universe 31 contains what percent of the universe's robot population?
(a) 21.
(b) 87.
(c) 58.
(d) 35.

5. What refers to a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula?
(a) Theorem.
(b) Hypothesis.
(c) Equation.
(d) Vector.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles see interacting with his mother when he visits his family's home in Chapter 13?

2. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "B Series"?

3. About what age is Charles in the narrative?

4. How does Charles enter his family's home in Chapter 13?

5. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. Who does the narrator describe in Chapter 7? How does he communicate with this person?

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

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

10. What symbolism and foreshadowing can be seen as the narrator arrives in Loop City in Chapter 10?

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