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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. In Charles's handwriting, the book in Chapter 16 is inscribed with the admonition to read it, and then write it, which will do what?
(a) Change his perspective.
(b) Open his mind.
(c) Make him famous.
(d) Save his life.

2. What does Charles do when the woman in Chapter 20 says she wants him to stay and be a part of her family?
(a) Jumps through the window.
(b) Sits down.
(c) Yells at her.
(d) Runs for the door.

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

4. It occurs to Charles in Chapter 20 that desire is what?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Bliss.
(c) Motivation.
(d) Futile.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. An excerpt called "residual objects in closed time-like curves" describes the hypothetical "Book from _____."

4. A book excerpt,"TM-31 calibration protocol," concludes that a time machine can only go where?

5. An excerpt called "decoherence and wave function collapse" says that a unified theory of chronodiegetics would combine the forces of regret, counterfactual elements and what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Charles discover in the box from his mother in Chapter 28?

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

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

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

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

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

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