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

2. In the third Interlude, where are Einstein and Besso?
(a) At Besso's home.
(b) At Einstein's home.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) In a fishing boat.

3. What does the narrator want readers to consider in the "3 May 1905" dream?
(a) A world in which life and death do not balance.
(b) A world in which cause and effect are erratic.
(c) A world in which life and death balance.
(d) A world in which cause and effect balance.

4. According to Besso, what does Einstein live without?
(a) Pain.
(b) Love.
(c) Hate.
(d) Passion.

5. What do those of religious faith see time as evidence of?
(a) Death.
(b) The Second Coming.
(c) The Apocalypse.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, who makes pilgrimages to the center of time?

2. How long ago, in the "17 June 1905" dream, did the lovers meet?

3. According to the narrator, in the world described in the "22 May 1905" dream, what happens to people who have had "their vision"?

4. For the town described in the "4 May 1905" dream, times passes, but what happens?

5. How does the world in the "15 May 1905" exist?

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