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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Si's favorite street in New York City?

2. What year does Si live in?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 3, where does Ruben take Si?

4. What is the relationship of Katie Mancuso and Andrew Carmody?

5. How did Si and Katie meet?

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. Why is it crucial to Si's job that he learn to hypnotize himself?

3. What does Katie tell Si about her past that sets up the scene for Si's first assignment?

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

5. Which two people visit Si at the Dakota first and for what purpose?

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

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

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

9. When Rossoff visits Si at the Dakota, what hypnotic suggestion does he make to Si?

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Science fiction sometimes uses factual, real-life events as a basis to make a fictional events seem more real. Describe two real-life events the author used to make Time and Again seem more real. And, if you had written the book, describe a real-life fact you would have added to make the story seem real.

Essay Topic 2

At the start of Si's employment with the agency, the scientists involved insisted that the time travelers be very careful not to change history. What made the scientists change their mind about this policy? Do you think the scientists had good motives in asking Si to change history? Relate a benefit to changing history. Relate a possible side effect in changing history.

Essay Topic 3

Most stories have a "bad guy," or antagonist. In Time and Again there were two; one in the present and one in the past. Who were the two antagonists and, though they lived in different times, how are they the same? How are they different?

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