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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 city vanishes when Richard is flying a plane at the beginning of the novel?

2. What does Pye tell Leslie she can use as a guide in Chapter 5?

3. What does Richard realize is part of him at the end of Chapter 9?

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

5. How many people might young Richard kill if he flies the plane that drops a hydrogen bomb in 1962?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leslie rely on her intuition?

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

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

4. What do Leslie and Richard find on the mountainside they land on?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how both Richard and Leslie positively influence their alternate selves. What important things do they help them understand so they can make better choices? Provide specific textual examples to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the theme of love is used in this novel to transform characters and their lives. What opportunities does love open up to them? How does love provide the answers they seek?

Essay Topic 3

What is the meaning of the title of this novel? How do Richard and Leslie experience themselves as being one with others? Provide specific textual examples to support your ideas.

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