3. Who says, "Time is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant?"
(a) Treff.
(b) Darrow.
(c) Doyle.
(d) Benner.

4. Doyle stays in a hotel after he is fired from the inn, where ________ is supposed to be staying.
(a) Dog Face Joe.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Ashbless.
(d) Coleridge.

5. What is the name of Darrow's company?
(a) IBM.
(b) Coleridge.
(c) DIRE.
(d) Honeywell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Doyle is hired as an expert of which poet?

2. Who is the chubby man with long gray hair standing with the tavern manager?

3. Who told Horrabin about Dumb Tom?

4. Who does Doyle meet after he loses his products as a costermonger?

5. What is Romany's honorary chair?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the place where Horrabin and his beggars hold parliament.

2. What happens after Doyle pays a beggar to take him to Horrabin?

3. Doyle knows that other twentieth century men are after him. What he doesn't know at first, is why. Why are other men from Doyle's time trying to kill him?

4. How does Jacky end up at the river where Doyle is being pursued?

5. What happens when Doyle and Romany first meet?

6. What happens when Doyle is shot?

7. What sort of questions does Darrow ask Doyle during Doyle's interview?

8. What happens when the time tourists arrive at the lecture?

9. Describe Ahmed the Hindoo.

10. Who is Doyle going to see before he is shot by men whistling a song from the future? What is his plan?

(see the answer keys)

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