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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. Who conducts the psychological tests on Si?

2. What is Si's assignment for his third trip to the past?

3. During lunch with Danziger at the agency, who are the other two people Si notices eating lunch?

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

5. Why does Dr. Rossoff come to see Si at the Dakota?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Danziger explaining Einstein's theory to Si help make the story appear more realistic to the reader?

2. 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?

3. On the walls of Katie's shop Si notices several photographs, what does he think of them?

4. Si's first day at his new job begins with a tour of the agency. What is the most beneficial thing he sees?

5. How did Si meet Katie?

6. When Si returns to the agency in the present time in Chapter 11, why do the scientists quiz him about his trip to the past?

7. Why might Ruben's agency have wanted to search Si's apartment, even though they had already checked out his background?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the time travelers at the agency accidentally eliminated a man from history. Choose one of these three persons and tell how they affected the world and what the world may be like if they had never existed.

1. Ben Franklin

2. Albert Einstein

3. Thomas Edison

Essay Topic 2

Time and Again explores the concept of personal responsibility. What is your definition of personal responsibility? How does your definition fit in with Si's eventual decisions to:

1) Tell Julia the truth about who he is and where he's from?

2) Return Julia to the past?

3) Stop the time travel project?

Essay Topic 3

Imagine you had the opportunity to experience time travel and that you were a frequent visitor to your favorite place in time. If you had to choose to live in the past or live in the present, which would you choose? What would you miss most about the time period you didn't choose?

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