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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 excerpt "conjectures, currently unproven but believed to be true" posits that a moment has measurable substance, there are fine numbers of moments, there is no global time, and ______ is a theory of regret and limitations.
(a) Chronodiegetics.
(b) Chronogeometry.
(c) Chronoluminescence.
(d) Chrononucleosis.

2. In Chapter 16, Charles examines the book from the future, which is part autobiography and part what?
(a) Field manual.
(b) Movie script.
(c) Daydream.
(d) Comedy.

3. What does the woman in Chapter 20 tell Charles when he asks if his father is here?
(a) He won't return until Tuesday.
(b) Only in spirit.
(c) He should be back within an hour.
(d) He went away long ago.

4. In Chapter 24, Charles gets a call from whom, but TAMMY tells him not to take it because he is stuck in a time loop?
(a) His mother.
(b) Phil.
(c) His father.
(d) His cousin.

5. The maiden voyage of the time machine in Chapter 22 is a technical failure because Charles and his father had not figured out what?
(a) The rules of time travel.
(b) How to control the vehicle.
(c) How to land the vehicle.
(d) How to return to their starting point.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charles knock over in his attempt to escape in Chapter 20?

2. Chapter 20 opens with Charles standing in a temple before various statues of whom?

3. At Charles's request in Chapter 27, TAMMY calculates the probability of the occurrence discussed as once every how many years?

4. What refers to knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight?

5. In Chapter 30, Charles asks TAMMY how long they were in the loop and she replies that time never moved forward after he shot himself, because he tried to skip forward in time and entered what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is described in the excerpt "residual objects in closed time-like curves"?

3. What does Charles discover in the book in Chapter 28?

4. How is the director described in Chapter 25? What does Charles's father tell him?

5. What is metaphorical about Charles's and his father's discovery about time travel in Chapter 22?

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

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

8. How is the theme of memory embodied in Chapter 16?

9. How are self-reflection and self improvement symbolized in Chapter 21?

10. What does Charles discover using the key in Chapter 29?

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