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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Si's assignment for his third trip to the past?
(a) To find the agency's building.
(b) To find his parents.
(c) To follow the postal carrier who delivers the letter.
(d) To observe the man who mailed the letter.

5. While talking with Ruben and Danziger in Danziger's office, what pledge does Si make to Danziger?
(a) That he'll donate his paycheck to charity.
(b) That he won't go into the past again.
(c) That he will find out who Danziger's parents are.
(d) His loyalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does May play?

2. What is Si shown to help him relate to people in the past?

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

4. How does Ruben know that Katie went with Si into the past?

5. While Si is making dinner during his last few days at the Dakota, who surprises him with a visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Si repeatedly look out the windows of his room in the Dakota and why does he stop looking out of them?

2. How does Ruben find out Katie went with Si into the past?

3. How is the fact that Si sees a woman with smallpox scars on her face in the past relevant to the relationship between past and present times?

4. Why does the agency use the Dakota as a time travel portal for Si?

5. Why does Si not tell the scientists that Katie went with him to 1882?

6. Si finds out two things happened in January, 1882. What were they?

7. How would you describe Simon Morley?

8. Why might Danziger have asked Si to sketch his parents?

9. What does Si remember after waking up from his session with Dr. Rossoff?

10. What does Simon do for a living?

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