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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 unusual marking was on Andrew Carmody's grave?

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

3. What connection does the letter have with President Cleveland?

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

5. What does Si tell his boss In Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Simon do for a living?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To stop Esterhazy from changing world history, Si prevents Danziger's parents from meeting. Though Danziger tells Si to do whatever was necessary to stop Esterhazy, do you think it was cruel for Si to prevent Danziger from being born? Speculate on whether or not the time travel project ever came into existence without Danziger.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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