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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During their lunch meeting, whose theory about time does Danziger explain to Si?
(a) Galileo Galilei's.
(b) Michel Nostradamus's.
(c) Stephen Hawking's.
(d) Albert Einstein's.

3. What does Danziger hope will happen if Si sees Danziger's parents?
(a) That he can take their picture.
(b) That Si doesn't get too upset.
(c) That his parents don't recognize Si.
(d) That he can sketch the way they looked.

4. Who is the book's narrator?
(a) Katie Mancuso.
(b) Jack Finney.
(c) Ruben Prien.
(d) Simon Morley.

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

6. How are Si's visitors dressed when they arrive at the Dakota during his training?
(a) In spacesuits.
(b) In their normal clothes.
(c) In shorts and t-shirts.
(d) In period costume.

7. What concerns does the board of directors have about Si's trips to the past?
(a) That he's not really going to the past.
(b) That it costs too much money.
(c) That he will change the present.
(d) That he might find his parents.

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

9. Where does Si meet with Danziger in Chapter 4?
(a) In his office.
(b) In the cafeteria.
(c) On the street.
(d) In the alley behind the agency.

10. What instrument does May play?
(a) The harp.
(b) The piano.
(c) The organ.
(d) The drums.

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

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

13. After Ruben and Si finish talking about Katie at the end of Chapter 11, where does Ruben take Si?
(a) To the agency's warehouse.
(b) To the Dakota.
(c) Into the past.
(d) Out to dinner.

14. How did Si and Katie meet?
(a) When Si went into her antique store.
(b) At the mall.
(c) Friends introduced them.
(d) In the grocery store.

15. Who does Si and Katie see mail Carmody's letter?
(a) A man wearing a hat and boots.
(b) A tall, husky man with a beard.
(c) A tall, bald man.
(d) A husky man with a dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What connection is there between Carmody's letter and Danziger's parents?

2. Who is the government agency director?

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

4. Before he begins his job training, Si tells Danziger he wants to go back in time for what reason?

5. During a walk in the snow, what does Si see a couple in a sleigh doing?

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