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

2. In Chapter 15, where is Charles feeling throbbing pain?

3. What customers want, Charles says, is to repeatedly experience the _____ moments of their lives repeatedly.

4. In Chapter 12, the narrator remembers being driven home from the park at what age by his father?

5. Charles misused what device by cruising too often in Present Indefinite in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the style of the book established through the table of contents and opening quotes?

3. How is the narrator's existence metaphorical for contemporary society?

4. What does the narrator say his mother taught him in Chapter 13? What is significant about this?

5. What is described in the excerpt "unfinished nature of"?

6. How does the author explore the genre of metafiction in the novel?

7. How is the correlation between human emotion and time travel symbolized in Chapter 9?

8. What is significant about the narrator's memory of his father in Chapter 12?

9. How does the narrator describe being in Loop City in Chapter 11?

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

Define and discuss literary allusion in the narrative. From what film or literature does the character of Luke Skywalker arise?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the settings of Universe 31 and TM-31. What is the size of the universe? How big is Charles's ship?

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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