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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 logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Coherence.
(d) Sobriety.

2. What time does the clock show in the scene of the kitchen in Charles's boyhood home in Chapter 28?
(a) 7:14:20.
(b) 11:12:13.
(c) 4:12:33.
(d) 1:46:55.

3. In Chapter 17, TAMMY analyzes the text and declares that it has been what?
(a) Copied many times.
(b) Plagiarized.
(c) Translated from Polish.
(d) Written in pencil.

4. In Chapter 20, the shuttle driver gets up, slaps Charles, kisses him, and then does what?
(a) Pushes him out of the shuttle.
(b) Shoots him in the head.
(c) Stomps on his foot.
(d) Punches him in the stomach.

5. What is defined as a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape?
(a) Black hole.
(b) Nebula.
(c) Galaxy.
(d) Dark Moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 27, Charles's capsule is running out of fuel, and they must soon return to headquarters where Charles knows he will do what?

2. While reading the book from the future, Charles notices that the words do what in Chapter 17?

3. What does Charles experience at the end of Chapter 19?

4. In Chapter 20, Charles falls screaming into an abyss, and then someone says he is in what?

5. A book excerpt,"TM-31 calibration protocol," describes the calibration process as putting sensors on one's fingertips and waiting for how long?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is described in the excerpt "TM-31 calibration protocol"? How is this metaphorical?

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

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