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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 the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "B Series"?
(a) "Tenseless Theory of Time."
(b) "Traditional Theory of Time."
(c) "Turbulent Theory of Time."
(d) "Tensed Theory of Time."

2. In Chapter 14, Charles pulls his gun and shoots his future self just as the victim is telling him that everything is what?
(a) Elementary.
(b) In the book.
(c) Futile.
(d) Love.

3. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?
(a) "Tensed Theory of Time."
(b) "Tenseless Theory of Time."
(c) "Traditional Theory of Time."
(d) "Turbulent Theory of Time."

4. Whose face does the narrator claim he sees his own turning into in the mirror in Chapter 1?
(a) Aurthur Miller's.
(b) His father's.
(c) His mother's.
(d) His brother's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives lasts for how long in a hypothetical period of her life?

2. In what person is the book written?

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

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chapter 3 begin? What is significant about time travel in this chapter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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