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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Si think about accepting Ruben's job offer?
(a) He wants to make more money.
(b) He'd like to take a break from work.
(c) He wants to get away from his girlfriend.
(d) He believes his life is boring.

2. What is the setting of the play that Si watches at the agency?
(a) A small-town street in the Midwestern U.S.
(b) A space station in the future.
(c) A small street in New York.
(d) A castle in England.

3. What makes it easier for Si to imagine himself in the past?
(a) A heavy snowfall.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Moonlight.
(d) A thunderstorm.

4. Si is both _______________ and _______________ by Ruben's job offer.
(a) Excited, flattered.
(b) Bored, disgusted.
(c) Distracted, put out.
(d) Suspicious, intrigued.

5. When Si finishes his training at the agency where is he taken?
(a) To the Statue of Liberty.
(b) To the post office.
(c) To the Dakota.
(d) To the laboratory.

6. What kind of job does Ruben offer Si?
(a) Traveling to Europe.
(b) Investigating a crime.
(c) Traveling through time.
(d) Exploring another dimension.

7. What proves that Si did indeed travel back in time?
(a) He took pictures of old buildings.
(b) He saw a couple in a sleigh.
(c) He saw the museum window.
(d) He saw snow.

8. Before he begins his job training, Si tells Danziger he wants to go back in time for what reason?
(a) To find out who his parents were.
(b) To find out who Katie's parents were.
(c) To see what Carmody looked like.
(d) To find out who mailed the letter to Carmody.

9. How does Si break the news to his family and friends that he'll be gone for awhile?
(a) He sends them post cards.
(b) He asks Katie to tell them.
(c) He doesn't tell them.
(d) He calls them on the phone.

10. When Si visits the agency, what does he see people in the classrooms there doing?
(a) Learning how to operate the time travel machine.
(b) Learning the Charleston, Medieval French, and how to fight with old weapons.
(c) Learning about time travel theory.
(d) Learning to speak Spanish and how to calculate Roman numerals.

11. Si admits he enjoys Katie's company, but tells the reader that:
(a) He will keep most things about their relationship to himself.
(b) He wishes she were more exciting.
(c) She talks too much.
(d) He wants to get to know her better.

12. What does the government agency director tell Si?
(a) He is in for an experience he will never forget.
(b) He can't work for the agency.
(c) He is making a huge mistake.
(d) He can't tell anyone about time travel.

13. When Si first visits the Dakota in the past, what does he do there?
(a) Wonders how he got there.
(b) Takes pictures.
(c) Meets other time travelers.
(d) Takes a room key.

14. When Ruben and Si finish their lunch, Ruben is convinced that:
(a) Si has already decided to take the job.
(b) Si is not the right person for the job.
(c) He'll have to talk Si into taking the job.
(d) He doesn't like eating outdoors.

15. After one of their dates, what does Katie tell Si?
(a) That she was adopted.
(b) That she wants to travel through time too.
(c) That she was related to Grover Cleveland.
(d) That she wants to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about Si's apartment at the Dakota?

2. How did Si and Katie meet?

3. Si and Katie discuss what while on the bus in 1882?

4. How does Katie help Si with his job training?

5. When Si begins training for his assignment, how does he feel?

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