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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ada introduce her husband to Van?
(a) She gives his full, formal name.
(b) She gives a familiar nickname.
(c) She forgets to introduce him.
(d) She calls him her husband.

2. How many copies of Van's book are sold in the first year?
(a) Six hundred.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Six.
(d) Six thousand.

3. What is Lucette studying in 1892?
(a) History of Literature.
(b) History of Art.
(c) History of Philosophy.
(d) History of Music.

4. What was Van's first novel called?
(a) Letters from Terra.
(b) In the Three-Ninth Kingdom.
(c) Ardors in Ardis.
(d) Les enfants.

5. How does Van feel about Ada when he first sees her after her husband's death?
(a) He is put off by the physical changes in her.
(b) He is frightened yet tantalized by her.
(c) He is depressed with her lack of changes.
(d) He is excited and can't wait to get her alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Van think about the relativistic idea of space-time?

2. How does the blind Spencer Muldoon describe colors?

3. What is the best Franco-Estonian restaurant in Manhattan Major?

4. What is Van doing while he stays at Cordula's?

5. What does Van term the act of pausing and sending the mind slightly backwards, to examine the moment of the present?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cordula tell Van about Vanda Broom?

2. What does Lucette say about Ada's hands?

3. What does Van propose about the future in his treatise on time?

4. What does Van write about in his unsent letter to Ada?

5. How does Van respond to an invitation to dine at the Captain's table?

6. How does Van gain the post of Rattner Chair of Philosophy at University of Kingston?

7. How does Van remember his three farewell lectures on Bergson's Time?

8. How does Van respond to Ada's arrival?

9. What is Van's opinion of acting?

10. How does Demon discover that Van is living with Ada?

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