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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 what person is the book written?
(a) First.
(b) Third.
(c) Second.
(d) Fourth.
2. 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.
3. Phil is described by the narrator as easygoing, but he thinks he's what?
(a) Worthless.
(b) Doomed.
(c) A woman on the inside.
(d) A real person.
4. What has the Tense Operator been set to for some time in Chapter 1?
(a) Past-Temporary.
(b) Historical-Section.
(c) Current-Limited.
(d) Present-Indefinite.
5. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives is of what?
(a) Her wedding day.
(b) Watching her favorite movie.
(c) Giving birth to Charles.
(d) A Sunday dinner.
Short Answer Questions
1. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?
2. In Chapter 4, the protagonist says Universe 31 can be what at night when it is aglow and everyone is awake?
3. What is the name of Charles's time capsule's on-board computer?
4. Charles misused what device by cruising too often in Present Indefinite in Chapter 10?
5. What is a suspension in air of words and images which Charles peers into on the subway in Chapter 11?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the setting and protagonist of the novel described in Chapter 1?
2. What is revealed about Universe 31 in the excerpt "reality, in relation to"?
3. What is the reality of the setting like in the novel? How does the author express the abstractions of the setting?
4. How is the style of the book established through the table of contents and opening quotes?
5. How does Chapter 3 begin? What is significant about time travel in this chapter?
6. What has caused the problem with the narrator's ship in Chapter 10? What is symbolic about this?
7. 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?
8. What leads to Charles's outburst in Chapter 15? What does he discover on the ship?
9. Where is client the narrator contacts in Chapter 8? What did she use her time machine for?
10. What symbolism and foreshadowing can be seen as the narrator arrives in Loop City in Chapter 10?
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