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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the funding for the time travel project come from?
(a) The post office.
(b) Danziger.
(c) The government.
(d) The scientists.

2. Why does Si fit the agency's profile?
(a) He is adventurous.
(b) He is quiet and lonely.
(c) He likes to travel.
(d) He has brown hair.

3. What is the theme of Chapter 6?
(a) How Danziger's parents met.
(b) Looking at old photographs.
(c) Si's job training.
(d) The theory of time travel.

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

5. How does Si change his appearance before he travels back in time?
(a) He shaves.
(b) He grows his hair and a beard.
(c) He dies his hair gray.
(d) He puts on make-up.

6. What did Andrew Carmody do for a living?
(a) He was a minor official in Grover Cleveland's administration.
(b) He drove Grover Cleveland's car.
(c) He was president of the United States.
(d) He was a guard at the White House.

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

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

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

10. Who is Katie Mancuso?
(a) Si's girlfriend.
(b) Ruben's secretary.
(c) Si's wife.
(d) Si's secretary.

11. Why did Si not tell the scientists that Katie traveled with him into the past?
(a) He wanted to tell Danziger privately.
(b) He decided not to tell anybody.
(c) He wanted to ask Katie if it was okay first.
(d) He wanted to tell Ruben first.

12. How did Andrew Carmody die?
(a) He died of pneumonia.
(b) He was in a car accident.
(c) He shot himself.
(d) He was shot in a robbery.

13. What is the relationship of Katie Mancuso and Andrew Carmody?
(a) He's her adoptive grandfather.
(b) He's her husband from the past.
(c) He's an old friend of her family.
(d) He's her adoptive uncle.

14. While preparing for their trip to the past, what post-hypnotic suggestion do Si and Katie give themselves?
(a) To see who mailed the letter and to not interfere.
(b) To take a walk in the snow.
(c) To find out when the letter was mailed.
(d) To take a bus to the post office.

15. While Si is making dinner during his last few days at the Dakota, who surprises him with a visit?
(a) May.
(b) Katie.
(c) Dr. Rossoff.
(d) Danziger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of job does Ruben offer Si?

2. During lunch with Danziger at the agency, who are the other two people Si notices eating lunch?

3. What does Si look at that makes him excited about traveling to the past?

4. What unusual marking was on Andrew Carmody's grave?

5. Why does Ruben apologize to Si in the warehouse?

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