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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. A book excerpt,"TM-31 calibration protocol," concludes that a time machine can only go where?
(a) Into the past.
(b) Where it is programmed to go.
(c) Where the person wants it to go.
(d) Into the future.

2. What refers to knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight?
(a) Psychic.
(b) Humor.
(c) Belief.
(d) Wisdom.

3. What refers to that having existed in, or having occurred during a time previous to the present?
(a) Past.
(b) Beforehand.
(c) Memory.
(d) Ancient.

4. The morning after Charles and his father meet with the institute director, his father does what?
(a) Buys him breakfast.
(b) Destroys the time machine.
(c) Works on the time machine.
(d) Drives away and does not return all day.

5. Chapter 23 describes how the crash had the fortunate effect of eliminating the possibility of what?
(a) The time machine being used for evil.
(b) That two sets of themselves would then go forward in time.
(c) The prototype being mass produced.
(d) Being killed by their future selves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles and his father's main discovery in Chapter 22 is that time travel does what?

2. What does Charles find inside the box in Chapter 28?

3. In Chapter 30, Charles realizes that in order to escape the time loop, he must do what?

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

5. Chapter 19 shows Charles opening the time capsule hatch and finding what message?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is metaphorical about Charles's transcription of the book in Chapter 16?

4. What is symbolized when Charles watches his mother's reaction in Chapter 23?

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

6. What discoveries does Charles make of his childhood in Chapter 21?

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

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

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

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

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