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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 Chapter 7 begins, where/when is Si?
(a) In the Dakota, in the past.
(b) In the park, in the past.
(c) In the Dakota, in the present.
(d) Near the Statue of Liberty, in the present.

2. Why does Dr. Rossoff come to see Si at the Dakota?
(a) To talk him out of time travel.
(b) To take his blood pressure.
(c) To hypnotize him.
(d) To see if he's okay.

3. Before accepting the job, what request does Si make of Ruben?
(a) That Si can tell Katie the truth.
(b) That Si can call his parents.
(c) That Si can contact his past relatives.
(d) That he get a big office.

4. Who does Ruben work for?
(a) A science lab.
(b) The press.
(c) A secret government agency.
(d) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

5. During his training with Dr. Rossoff, what does Si do?
(a) Goes for a walk in 1882.
(b) Eats dinner.
(c) Goes for a walk in 1982.
(d) Calls Katie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Andrew Carmody do for a living?

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

3. When Si finishes his training at the agency where is he taken?

4. The morning after Si's walk in the snow, what has mysteriously vanished?

5. When Si first visits the Dakota in the past, what does he do there?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Simon do for a living?

3. What detail that Si's revealed about his experience in the past made the agency scientists so happy and why?

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

5. Describe the individual Katie and Si see mailing the letter.

6. How does Si change his appearance in the present to prepare to fit in in the past?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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