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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The inhabitants of Universe 31 say it has a wide what, based on the concept of the place?

2. What does Charles's mother complain about when she speaks to him in Chapter 13?

3. By what name does Charles also refer to as The Women I Never Married?

4. What does Charles see interacting with his mother when he visits his family's home in Chapter 13?

5. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is metaphorical about the narrator's visit to see his mother in Chapter 13?

2. What problem does the narrator discover with his ship in Chapter 10?

3. What is revealed about the narrator in Chapter 14?

4. Where is client the narrator contacts in Chapter 8? What did she use her time machine for?

5. How are the setting and protagonist of the novel described in Chapter 1?

6. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

7. How is the size of Universe 31 described in the novel?

8. What leads to Charles's outburst in Chapter 15? What does he discover on the ship?

9. What symbolism and foreshadowing can be seen as the narrator arrives in Loop City in Chapter 10?

10. How is nostalgia defined in the excerpt "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze the character of the narrator's mother in the novel. In what state is the mother trapped in and how did she get that way?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the setting of Loop City in the narrative. How does Loop City reflect the cities of our world today?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss foreshadowing and symbolism in Chapter 10. What does the narrator seeing himself outside the time capsule foreshadow?

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