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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. How does Charles enter his family's home in Chapter 13?
(a) Through an open window.
(b) By the fire escape.
(c) Through an unlocked door.
(d) Through the chimney.

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

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

4. The inhabitants of Universe 31 say it has a wide what, based on the concept of the place?
(a) Imagined space.
(b) Variety of life forms.
(c) Political focus.
(d) Psychological scale.

5. In Chapter 14, Charles awakens late and rushes where to get his repaired capsule?
(a) Hangetr35.
(b) Hanger 83.
(c) Hanger 57.
(d) Hanger 7.

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 8, Charles makes a call to a client located in what time period?

3. In Chapter 9, the narrator notes that he has been in his time capsule for about how long?

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 customers want, Charles says, is to repeatedly experience the _____ moments of their lives repeatedly.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is metaphorical about the narrator's visit to see his mother in Chapter 13?

2. How is the correlation between human emotion and time travel symbolized in Chapter 9?

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

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

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

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