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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 term means to face in hostility or defiance; oppose?
(a) Confront.
(b) Agitate.
(c) Instigate.
(d) Enrage.
2. While reading the book from the future, Charles notices that the words do what in Chapter 17?
(a) Adjust themselves as his eyes travel the pages.
(b) Carry hidden meanings.
(c) Bring people together.
(d) Create differences among people.
3. In Chapter 24, Charles's father says the equations indicate their machine is doing what?
(a) Miscalculating time.
(b) Colliding with other figures.
(c) Wasting energy.
(d) Producing radiation.
4. What is on the smaller box inside the wrapped box from Charles's mother in Chapter 28?
(a) A keyhole.
(b) A drawing.
(c) Wrapping paper.
(d) Kind words.
5. The excerpt "theorems, miscellaneous" contains only the statement that sooner or later, a time will come when the next day, a person will what?
(a) Confront the past.
(b) See the truth.
(c) Lose everything.
(d) Wither away.
Short Answer Questions
1. Charles and his father's main discovery in Chapter 22 is that time travel does what?
2. Charles's father makes the discovery that what can be a time machine in Chapter 24?
3. Chapter 19 shows Charles opening the time capsule hatch and finding what message?
4. What does Charles experience at the end of Chapter 19?
5. What refers to a plan, procedure, or expedient for promoting a desired end or result?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where are Charles and his father in the memory in Chapter 25?
2. What is symbolized through the shuttle driver in Chapter 20?
3. What does Charles discover in the box from his mother in Chapter 28?
4. What is symbolized by Charles and his father being unable to land the machine in Chapter 22?
5. What does the excerpt titled "Wineberg-Takayma Radius" discuss?
6. What is metaphorical about Charles's and his father's discovery about time travel in Chapter 22?
7. Against whose advice does Charles jump to the end of the book in Chapter 18? Why?
8. What is symbolized by Charles's father's second machine described in Chapter 26?
9. Why is the setting of Chapters 20 and 21 important?
10. What is symbolic about the scene in Chapter 25 with Charles and his father?
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