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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Felix Grier do for a living?
(a) He's a photographer.
(b) He's a mailman.
(c) He's an artist.
(d) He writes for the newspaper.

2. What does the sign in the window of 19 Gramercy Park reveal about the house there?
(a) It's a boarding house.
(b) It's for rent.
(c) It's an antique store.
(d) It's for sale.

3. When Si returns to the present at the start of Chapter 16, how long does he wait before going to the agency?
(a) One day.
(b) One hour.
(c) One week.
(d) The weekend.

4. How does Si know where to hide to watch Jake meet Carmody?
(a) He figures it out on his own.
(b) From information in Katie's letter.
(c) Julia shows him a good place.
(d) Ruben tells him where to hide.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what place does Si make two sketches of?
(a) The farmland where the museum is in the present time.
(b) The street between the Dakota and the museum.
(c) The museum.
(d) The Dakota.

6. Why does Si insist that Julia return home?
(a) So she can marry Jake.
(b) So she doesn't have to experience war, pollution or racism.
(c) Because it would change the future if she doesn't.
(d) Because it's the right thing to do.

7. After spending another day in 1882, what does Si decide about the people who live there?
(a) They deserve to be happy.
(b) They should all come to live in the future with him.
(c) He's glad he doesn't live there with them.
(d) They need better cars.

8. When Si goes for a ride on the top of a bus, what does the bus driver talk about?
(a) Children playing in hay at the park.
(b) How unhappy he is living in 1882.
(c) Homeless people living in the museum.
(d) Homeless children sleeping in hay bales.

9. What does Julia tell Si is the most important thing to a woman?
(a) That a man is a good provider.
(b) That a man asks her to marry him.
(c) That a man is handsome.
(d) That a man has his own car.

10. What newspaper office does Si notice on his way to Jake's office?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Herald Ledger.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The New York Observer.

11. When Carmody tells Chief of Police Byrnes his story, what does he admit?
(a) That Jake was blackmailing him.
(b) That he has a moon and star on the bottom of his boot.
(c) That his wife went to the ball without him.
(d) That he's a crook.

12. After listening in on Jake and Carmody, where does Si go?
(a) To Carmody's house.
(b) Back to the post office.
(c) To Jake's office.
(d) To the agency.

13. Who does Si and Julia see in the ballroom?
(a) Mrs. Carmody.
(b) Aunt Ada.
(c) Katie.
(d) Jake.

14. After their first meeting, when do Jake and Carmody plan to meet again?
(a) At midnight, three days later.
(b) After Si goes back to his own time.
(c) At nine in the morning, three days later.
(d) They don't plan to meet again.

15. In Chapter 16, the board of directors wants whose input on whether or not the project should continue?
(a) The president's.
(b) Ruben's.
(c) Chief of Police Byrnes's.
(d) Si's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Si notice about the children playing in 1882?

2. During dinner on his first night at the boarding house, why does Julia look curiously at Si?

3. On Si's fourth trip to the past, why is he nervous about returning to 19 Gramercy Park?

4. What does Julia tell Si about the markings on Carmody's tombstone?

5. Who owns the house at 19 Gramercy Park?

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