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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. The institution Charles and his father visit in Chapter 25 represents what to Charles's father?
(a) The power of the human brain.
(b) A life full of achievement.
(c) A life with many regrets.
(d) The hallowed halls of scientific achievement.

2. In Chapter 27, Charles asks TAMMY to calculate the odds of what?
(a) Him finding his father.
(b) The time machine running out of fuel.
(c) Him escaping the time loop.
(d) Him winning the lottery.

3. Despite the fact that TAMMY and TOAD tell him it is a bad idea, Charles keys in the instructions to do what in Chapter 18?
(a) Start at the beginning.
(b) Turn to the last page.
(c) Write the table of contents.
(d) Turn to page 55.

4. In what year was the author Charles Yu born?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1955.

5. Charles's father is how old at the start of Chapter 25?
(a) 55.
(b) 66.
(c) 61.
(d) 49.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 20, Charles realizes that the shoes he had seen belonged to whom?

2. What time does the clock show in the scene of the kitchen in Charles's boyhood home in Chapter 28?

3. Charles's father makes the discovery that what can be a time machine in Chapter 24?

4. In Chapter 18, Charles wants to give up, but TAMMY says he must continue through what?

5. In Chapter 19, the TM-31 begins to vibrate and what shakes loose?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the excerpt titled "Wineberg-Takayma Radius" discuss?

2. What is symbolized by Charles's experience of nothingness in Chapter 19?

3. Why is the setting of Chapters 20 and 21 important?

4. What is symbolized by Charles's father's second machine described in Chapter 26?

5. What is symbolic about the scene in Chapter 25 with Charles and his father?

6. Why much Charles refocus his efforts in Chapter 27?

7. What does Charles realize the setting represents in Chapter 20? What is his response to the setting?

8. What happens when Charles's father begins to demonstrate the machine in Chapter 25? What is his reaction?

9. What theory is described in the excerpt called "decoherence and wave function collapse"?

10. Where are Charles and his father in the memory in Chapter 25?

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