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

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

4. What kind of job does Ruben offer Si?

5. What year does Si live in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. When Si and Katie both go to the past how does the experience make them feel physically?

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

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

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

10. What does Danziger tell Si the potential agents he saw at the warehouse are being trained for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Time and Again has three main plots; the time travel project, Si's relationship with Julia, and the conflict between Jake and Carmody. Describe each of these plots.

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

After a man is eliminated from history, due to the time travel project, Esterhazy expresses his feelings that the risks of time travel to the future is minimal and the project should continue. Danziger, on the other hand, feels that even the smallest risk is too much and the project should be shut down. If you had been on the agency's board of directors who would you have sided with and why?

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