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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. While Si is in training at the Dakota which two people come to visit him?
(a) Ruben and May.
(b) Katie and May.
(c) Ruben and Danziger.
(d) Ruben and the Dakota manager.

2. What does Si tell his boss In Chapter 2?
(a) He wants a raise.
(b) He's quitting his job.
(c) He's going to take a second job.
(d) He needs a vacation.

3. How does Katie help Si with his job training?
(a) She talks to him on the phone.
(b) She doesn't help him.
(c) She quizes him.
(d) She makes him is favorite meal.

4. How does Si feel after looking at a collection of old photographs in an antique store?
(a) That he wishes everyone owned a digital camera.
(b) That they are just snapshots of life not being truly lived.
(c) That he'd like to get to know the people in them.
(d) That his life is more exciting than the ones in the photos.

5. What unusual marking was on Andrew Carmody's grave?
(a) His family crest.
(b) His birthdate was incorrect.
(c) A star in a circle.
(d) A crescent moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Ruben and Si finish talking about Katie at the end of Chapter 11, where does Ruben take Si?

2. What was so mysterious about the note Andrew Carmody left his family?

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

4. What kind of job does Ruben offer Si?

5. Who has to give permission before Danziger can send Si back in time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What detail about the project being government funded does Esterhazy relate to Si?

3. What does Simon do for a living?

4. 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?

5. Why did Si accept Ruben's job offer after his outing with Katie?

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

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

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

9. What about the photographs Si that looks at during training makes him more excited about his impending trip to the past?

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

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