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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the game of pretend Olive plays with her daughter?
(a) Undersea Adventure.
(b) Mystery Cavern.
(c) Fantasy Castle.
(d) Enchanted Forest.

2. Which of the following does Gaspery message after seeing Vincent?
(a) Olive.
(b) Edwin.
(c) Ephrem.
(d) Zoey.

3. In which of the following battles does Edwin fight?
(a) Battle of Verdun.
(b) Battle of the Somme.
(c) Battle of Tannenberg.
(d) Battle of Passchendaele.

4. With which of the following does Chapter 4 of "Mirella and Vincent / file corruption" begin?
(a) “Gaspery returned to the moment he’d left.”
(b) “He was on the beach at Caiette.
(c) “Gaspery stepped out of a New York City men’s room.”
(d) “Follow the evidence.”

5. With which of the following does the section "Last Book Tour on Earth / 2203 [2]" begin?
(a) “The portal door opens.”
(b) “‘Yes,’ he said.”
(c) “‘Listen,’ the journalist said.”
(d) “The first stop on the book tour was New York City.”

6. How many hours does Olive’s flight back to the moon take?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

7. From which of the following does St. John Mandel note she quotes?
(a) John Buchan.
(b) John Bunyan.
(c) John Buchanan.
(d) John Birch.

8. With which of the following does Chapter 1 of "Mirella and Vincent / file corruption" begin?
(a) “He was on the beach at Caiette.
(b) “Gaspery returned to the moment he’d left.”
(c) “Follow the evidence.”
(d) “But what makes a world real?”

9. With which of the following does Chapter 9 of "Anomaly" begin?
(a) “What someone—anyone!—at the Time Institute really should have caught…”
(b) “Quietly.”
(c) “A countdown had begun.”
(d) “When Talia was gone I sat alone…”

10. To which of the following years does Gaspery ask to travel?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1919.

11. With which of the following does Chapter 1 of "Anomaly" begin?
(a) “No star burns forever. ”
(b) “Is this the promised end?”
(c) “Not long after my sixtieth birthday…”
(d) “—and we were in a different room, in a different place.”

12. On which of the following is Olive a best-selling author?
(a) Titan.
(b) Rhea.
(c) Enceladus.
(d) Iapetus.

13. With which of the following does Chapter 8 of "Anomaly" begin?
(a) “Quietly.”
(b) “A countdown had begun.”
(c) “We were married within a year.”
(d) “When Talia was gone I sat alone…”

14. With which of the following does Chapter 5 of "Remittance / 1918, 1990, 2008" begin?
(a) “In 1918 Edwin had no more brothers.”
(b) “—as he faded out…”
(c) “No star burns forever. "
(d) “Gaspery walked around the side of the house.”

15. For how many years does Talia live on a farm before Gaspery joins her?
(a) 30.
(b) 26.
(c) 34.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days after Gaspery’s final visit to him does Edwin die?

2. In which of the following does the author report living?

3. How many days into lockdown does Olive’s daughter start playing pretend games with a seltzer bottle?

4. At what time does Olive typically wake?

5. In which subbasement of the Time Institute is the travel room to which Gaspery returns?

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