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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 11 June 1905 through Interlude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is curious about the town in the "10 May 1905" dream?
(a) The town is split in two and exists as a repetition of each other.
(b) The town exists two centuries in the past.
(c) The town exists one century in the past.
(d) The town exists in three different time periods.

2. What happens to the people in the world, described in the "10 June 1905" dream, who attempt to quantify time?
(a) They turn to ice.
(b) They are banished into other "worlds."
(c) They turn to stone.
(d) They leave to find a place where they can quantify time.

3. According to the narrator, why do people wear watches?
(a) As time keepers.
(b) As weight for balance.
(c) As reminders.
(d) As ornaments.

4. For people in the world described in the "20 May 1905" dream, what does each one carry?
(a) Their own personal Book of Life.
(b) Personal cameras to record their visits.
(c) Their own record of sins.
(d) A cross to ward off evil.

5. On the last day of the world, who are the people with the unnatural smiles?
(a) Those who are stealing.
(b) Those who do not think the world is going to end.
(c) Those who are attempting to correct misdeeds.
(d) Those who have not yet atoned for their sins.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the "22 May 1905" dream, how does time flow in the world described?

2. When does Besso remember looking like Einstein as he is now (second Interlude)?

3. What is Einstein eating in the second Interlude?

4. According to the "8 May 1905" dream, what is the date the world will end?

5. Why will schools close a year before the end of the world?

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