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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 runs through Leslie's body in the hotel hallway?
(a) Maid's cart.
(b) Cat.
(c) A glass.
(d) Towel.

2. What descriptive phrase does Attila use to describe himself?
(a) Scourge of God.
(b) God's Helper.
(c) Leader of Honorable Men.
(d) King of Monsters.

3. What city vanishes when Richard is flying a plane at the beginning of the novel?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. What color sport coat is the younger Richard wearing in the hotel when Richard talks with him?
(a) Black.
(b) Camel-colored.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

5. What does Pye suggest created Richard and Leslie's time changes?
(a) Belief in time travel.
(b) Electronics.
(c) Serendipity.
(d) Magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Richard ask Attila that makes him act violently?

2. What does the young Leslie ask Leslie and Richard before they leave at the end of Chapter 6?

3. How many years ago does Richard say he and Leslie first met at the end of Chapter 2?

4. What reason does Richard give for not wanting to enter the tent in the desert?

5. What does Leslie's younger self ask of Leslie in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pye tell Richard and Leslie about where they are?

2. What reassurance does Leslie give Richard about his advice to his younger self?

3. What kind of help does the young Leslie want from Leslie and Richard?

4. Describe the conflict between the younger Leslie and her mother.

5. How does Richard's dark side come out when Leslie is attacked in the desert?

6. Why does Leslie enter the tent in the desert?

7. Why does Leslie burn the sheaf of papers?

8. Describe what happens when Richard and Leslie feel an earthquake.

9. What is unusual about the experience Leslie and Richard have in Moscow?

10. Describe the idea foundry.

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