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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do physicists believe in the beginning of the 21st Century?
(a) Any future inventions will be totally predicated upon what was invented in the past two decades.
(b) The earth's shift in magnetic fields has totally changed how the physical world works at the atomic level.
(c) The physical world has been explained by contemporary theory.
(d) The physical world will constantly change and can never be fully understood.

2. Who calls Marek's cell phone?
(a) Doniger
(b) Gordon
(c) The Professor
(d) Kramer

3. What is one thing Quantum technology can do?
(a) Alter DNA
(b) Project radio beams instantly to places outside the Milky Way
(c) Examine distant objects without actual contact
(d) Create artificial limbs that work as well as biological ones

4. How is Arnaut successful in bringing down the fortress?
(a) The plague strikes the people in the fortress
(b) Help from a traitor from the inside
(c) Help from a man who has traveled back in time
(d) He is not successful

5. Why should Traub not have made his final trip?
(a) He was ill with cancer
(b) His body had not recovered from his last trip
(c) He accumulated too many transcription errors
(d) He refused to wear the tracer

6. Who annoys Chris at dinner in Sarlat?
(a) Kate's New York visitors
(b) Sophie
(c) Kramer
(d) Marek

7. Why does Katherine take samples of the mortar?
(a) To learn how the masons lay the brick
(b) She does not take samples of the mortar
(c) To date them
(d) To figure out the composition of them

8. What is the subject of Chris Hughes' doctoral dissertation?
(a) Medieval water mills
(b) The use of hoisting technology in sieges in the Middle Ages
(c) The impact of the bubonic plague on wars
(d) Fabrics of the middle ages

9. On what project is Chris Hughes working?
(a) The reconstruction of several small homes from the 1300s
(b) Collecting and analyzing bones at the site
(c) Analyzing fabric at the site
(d) The reconstruction of the water mill

10. What does Marek do in the Professor's room after the note they find at a site?
(a) Checks out the paper the Professor has
(b) Try to find a handwriting sample
(c) Nothing; he does not invade the Professor's privacy
(d) Compare bifocals

11. What concept does Gordon explain on the plane that has to do with experiments run on single protons?
(a) Subspace dimensions
(b) Multiverse
(c) Unity
(d) Thread

12. Where is Dan Baker driving?
(a) Grand Canyon National Park
(b) The Hopi Reservation
(c) In the canyons near Sedona
(d) Navajo Reservation

13. Who takes responsibility for notifying ITC of the death of the old man?
(a) Liz Baker
(b) Dr. Tsosie
(c) Jimmy Wauneka
(d) Joseph Traub

14. What does the Professor believe ITC has done at the site?
(a) Sabotaged several small digs
(b) Bribed the French government
(c) Done an independent site analysis
(d) Planted things that do not belong there

15. What caused Chris' grades to drop at one time during his school career?
(a) His devastation at the death of his parents
(b) His philandering
(c) His alcoholism
(d) His interest in sports

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tsosie order the nurse to do concerning the new patient?

2. For how many years has Gordon been Doniger's right hand man?

3. What does Johnston say he can start doing with the town surrounding the fortress?

4. What does Kramer push the Professor to agree to do?

5. What does Johnston always insist Chris do?

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