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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. What is Leslie's maiden name?

2. Where do Richard and Leslie try to land their plane at the beginning of the novel?

3. What color sport coat is the younger Richard wearing in the hotel when Richard talks with him?

4. How do Leslie and Richard feel without Pye in the seaplane?

5. In what city is the seventeen-year-old Leslie giving a recital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of questions does the younger Richard ask the older Richard to answer in order to prove his identity?

2. What important concept does Richard think about on the mountainside after Le Clerc has left them alone?

3. How did Tink influence Richard psychically regarding his first novel?

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

5. What does Richard tell the young man he talks with at William's Air Force base?

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

7. How do Richard and Leslie feel when Pye leaves them to fly alone?

8. How does Leslie get Richard to agree to stay in their alternate universe?

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

10. Describe Attila the Hun's reasons for his violent behavior.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the idea fairy? How does she express to Leslie and Richard where ideas come from? How has she been an important influence in Richard and Leslie's lives?

Essay Topic 2

What do Leslie and Richard's spacetime travels show us about choice and destiny? Do their experiences suggest they can create a different reality just by making different choices? How so? Use textual examples to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

What is the author's viewpoint about humanity's ability to keep the earth safe? How does he use the character of Mashara as a symbol of protector? What does it suggest that she is a computer?

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