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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. Why did Si not tell the scientists that Katie traveled with him into the past?

2. What is special about Si's apartment at the Dakota?

3. How does Si change his appearance before he travels back in time?

4. Before accepting the job, what request does Si make of Ruben?

5. While Si is in training at the Dakota which two people come to visit him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Simon do for a living?

2. What might have intrigued Simon into listening to Ruben Prien's offer?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What part of Si's description of 1882 New York did you find most fascinating? If you could travel back to New York in 1882 for one day, what would you on that day? How would your everyday life be different if you lived in 1882?

Essay Topic 2

There are several references in Time and Again to places and objects that have not changed much over the years. The Dakota, for example, was a real apartment building in 1882. The Statute of Liberty's arm is still in New York today. The Ladies' Mile continues to be a shopping district in New York. Think of a place or object that hasn't changed much over time. Why do you think it hasn't changed? Do you think it should be changed? How? Give the reasons why you think change in general is good or not good.

Essay Topic 3

Simon Morley is the narrator of the story and the story's plot is directly interwoven with his personality and how it changes as he experiences traveling to 1882. What is Simon's view of life when the book begins? How does his seeming fascination with old photographs symbolize his own life experience? What is Simon's view of life at the end of the book?

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