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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 argument between Jake and Carmody does Si overhear?

2. Why does Danziger quit the agency?

3. During dinner on his first night at the boarding house, why does Julia look curiously at Si?

4. On Si's first night back, what does Jake tell Si about Julia?

5. When Si goes to follow Jake to his meeting with Carmody in Chapter 18, who goes with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "The Tweed Ring"?

2. At breakfast on Si's first morning at the boarding house, what does Si notice about Julia?

3. During the board discussion about affects of time travel on the future, what two opposing points of view do Danziger and Esterhazy express?

4. Who opens the door to Si at 19 Gramercy Park and how does Si describe that individual?

5. What personality traits to Esterhazy and Jake Pickering have in common?

6. After taking Julia to his apartment in the present, what makes Si realize he has to take Julia back to her own time?

7. Why is Jake happy to see Si again in Chapter 17?

8. Who is Jake Pickering and why is he not happy to meet Si?

9. How does Si's conversation with a bus driver change Si's view of people in 1882, and what does he decide to do as a result?

10. What is the Ladies' Mile?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Of the questions raised in the first few chapters, which do you think the author did the best job of answering? What did you like about the answer?:

1) Is time travel possible?

2) Who mailed the mysterious letter to Carmody?

3) Why wouldn't Carmody's wife let anyone see his body?

4) What was the mysterious marking on his grave?

Essay Topic 2

The night that Jake and Carmody meet in Jake's office, Si is hiding in a corner obeying the agency's non-interference rule. Yet Si breaks that rule on two accounts: 1) by bringing Julia along, and 2) by helping in the rescue efforts while the building was on fire. Does Si have a double standard when it comes to non-interference that night? Explain the reason for your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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

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