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

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

3. The protagonist holds a hologram of what in his hands when he communicates with Phil?
(a) The time machine.
(b) The universe.
(c) Phil's head.
(d) The earth.

4. Charles rescued his dog as he was about to drift into what?
(a) An asteroid.
(b) A nebula.
(c) A lake.
(d) A black hole.

5. What does Charles's mother complain about when she speaks to him in Chapter 13?
(a) She feels old.
(b) Her time loop has grown boring.
(c) He needs a haircut.
(d) He calls too seldom.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, Charles reflects that he is a momma's boy who learned what from his mother?

2. What is the name of Charles's time machine?

3. What refers to an array of data ordered such that individual items can be located with a single index or subscript?

4. Charles misused what device by cruising too often in Present Indefinite in Chapter 10?

5. What statement follows "When it happens, this is what happens" in the opening of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How is nostalgia defined in the excerpt "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for"?

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

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

10. 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?

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