View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles rescued his dog as he was about to drift into what?

2. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?

3. What is on the lampshade pattern in Charles's memory with his father in the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What refers to an array of data ordered such that individual items can be located with a single index or subscript?

5. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives is of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has caused the problem with the narrator's ship in Chapter 10? What is symbolic about this?

2. What robotic services are described in the excerpt "convenience, particular sadness of"?

3. How does the narrator describe his mother in Chapter 3? What time period is she reliving?

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

5. How does the narrator relate to TAMMY? What is her character like?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify and analyze the narrative style and setting of the novel. In what person and tense is the narrative written?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the UTM-1 and the theories presented in the excerpt titled "Wineberg-Takayma Radius." What proposition does the excerpt present?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the theory of "chronodiegetics" and the relationship between time and literature in the novel. How is literary narrative symbolized?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 863 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample