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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 11, after the TM-31 is put in a holding pattern because of traffic, the narrator leaves the capsule with who?
(a) A pilot bot.
(b) A repair bot.
(c) A sexbot.
(d) A friend bot.

2. What occupation did Charles's father have?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Writer.
(c) Movie star.
(d) Dentist.

3. What is the most common nickname of the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) Flat City.
(b) Loop City.
(c) City of Light.
(d) City of Rain.

4. Before landing in Chapter 10, Charles sees a man who resembles himself, and he can see that the man's life is made entirely of what?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Lies.
(c) Love.
(d) Time.

5. Charles and Ed watch buskers playing what kind of music in Chapter 11?
(a) Country-dimensional.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Rock and Roll.
(d) Eleven-dimensional.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what age is Charles in the narrative?

2. In Chapter 9, Charles says time is a machine for converting pain into what that cannot be changed?

3. Whose face does the narrator claim he sees his own turning into in the mirror in Chapter 1?

4. In what person is the book written?

5. In Chapter 15, Phil tells Charles to return to headquarters and they will go out together for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the style of the book established through the table of contents and opening quotes?

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

3. How does the narrator describe Universe 31 at night? How big is his time capsule?

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

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

6. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

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

8. What is described in the excerpt "unfinished nature of"?

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

10. What does the narrator advise to the client in Chapter 8? What is his assessment of his clients' desires?

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