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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 does Julia tell Si about the markings on Carmody's tombstone?
2. How does Si get into Jake's office?
3. In the board meeting, what does Esterhazy say about the project's risks?
4. How does Katie's letter reassure Si and Julia that the events in Jake's office weren't their fault?
5. What does Felix Grier do for a living?
Short Essay Questions
1. During the board discussion about affects of time travel on the future, what two opposing points of view do Danziger and Esterhazy express?
2. When Si visits 19 Gramercy Park in the present, what might he have hoped to learn by asking the young woman who answered the door if she knew of Julia?
3. What is the Ladies' Mile?
4. What connection does Julia make between the boots in Jake's room and Carmody?
5. When Chapter 12 opens with Si in the past, what two sketches does he make?
6. Why is Jake happy to see Si again in Chapter 17?
7. On Si's first evening at the boarding house, what glaring mistake does Si make that almost reveals his true identity?
8. When Jake returns to the boarding house why is his shirt blood stained?
9. When Julia asks Si to sketch her, why do you think Si was nervous about doing so?
10. What is "The Tweed Ring"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
On the night of the fire at Jake's office, Si and Julia lament afterward that they were somehow responsible for the fire. Do you think they were responsible? Use evidence from the book in your answer and include your thoughts on the following two points: 1) Si could have helped Jake try and put out the fire; 2) Si could have broken up the argument between Carmody and Jake before it escalated out of control.
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