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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura answer when Thelma asks why Laura doesn't just get a bodyguard?

2. What does Thelma say when Laura asks if she still misses Ruth?

3. What does Chris say the men did as soon as they got stuck in the car?

4. Why did Stefan tell Laura not to push the button?

5. What does Krieger tell the women that he and his men are when they see them appear from the lightning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) If you had to choose to be either a time traveler like Stefan or someone who was stuck trying to figure the time travelers out, like Laura, which would you choose and why?

Part 2) Speculate on the way that Stefan believed the world should have been before he talked to Winston Churchill.

Part 3) Is there any indication that Laura, Stefan and Chris will be able to live happily ever after?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Thelma eventually meets her idol, Paul McCartney. If you could meet any person, present or past, who would you want to meet and why?

Part 2) Why is it that McCartney no longer held the same draw for Thelma after she met him?

Part 3) How would Thelma's reaction to McCartney have been different if she had met him before she was a large success?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Do you believe that time travel is harder to write compared to other types of fiction? Why or why not?

Part 2) What would you have changed in the story had you been free to make corrections or changes if any? Explain your changes and reason behind them or why you would choose not to change it.

Part 3) What do you believe may be the significance of the eleven-minute time gap that occurs between the moment that time travel begins and the return?

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