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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. What refers to the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.?
(a) Territory.
(b) Edge.
(c) Apex.
(d) Limit.

2. How old is Charles in the memory of himself and his family in Chapter 23?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

3. 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 father.
(b) His cousin.
(c) Phil.
(d) His mother.

4. Charles realizes in Chapter 20 that the room he is in is a construct of what?
(a) His perfect world.
(b) His father's ideal life.
(c) A world without change.
(d) His private hell.

5. What refers to an estimation of probability; forecast?
(a) Calculation.
(b) Odds.
(c) Horoscope.
(d) Prediction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Charles thinks in Chapter 20 of how his mother always would ask for what in an utterly unembarrassed way?

3. In Chapter 27, Charles asks TAMMY to calculate the odds of what?

4. In Chapter 18, Charles cannot see why he should not just jump forward in time, to when what is finished?

5. It occurs to Charles in Chapter 20 that desire is what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is symbolized through the shuttle driver in Chapter 20?

2. How does Charles describe his frame of mind in Chapters 20 and 21?

3. What is the author's statement about contemporary life in Chapter 30? How is this symbolized?

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

5. What is metaphorical about Charles's discoveries in Chapter 28?

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

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

8. How is Charles's book from the future metaphorical for memory?

9. What discovery did Charles and his father make about time travel in Charles's memory in Chapter 22?

10. Against whose advice does Charles jump to the end of the book in Chapter 18? Why?

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