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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 20 May, 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens one month before the end of the world?
(a) Governments will shut down and martial law will take over.
(b) Cities will be shut down and people will move to the country.
(c) Businesses will close.
(d) Families will gather to spend the last month together.

2. How does the world in the "15 May 1905" exist?
(a) As a black hole, digesting everything in its reach.
(b) In black and white only, with no shadow or brightness.
(c) As a blank slate.
(d) Without time and with images.

3. What do all of the people who have gathered together one minute before the end of the world do?
(a) Look to the sky and sing.
(b) Kneel and pray.
(c) Form a circle and hold hands.
(d) Lay down in family groups and hold each other.

4. What song is the young man humming as he waits for the typist to come into the office?
(a) Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata."
(b) Beethoven's "The Creatures of Prometheus."
(c) Beethoven's "Fantasy in G."
(d) Beethoven's "Fur Elise."

5. What is the last image readers are left with at the end of the "15 May 1905" dream?
(a) A book lying on a table.
(b) A broken watch.
(c) A clock with pendulum stuck mid-swing.
(d) A yellow brush.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, how does the world exist?

2. According to the narrator, without commitment there is what?

3. According to the narrator, what is the room full of?

4. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, why does this world exist as it does?

5. What is Einstein eating in the second Interlude?

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