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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the Prologue, how many times does the clock tower chime?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

3. What is the tragedy of the world described in the "10 May 1905" dream?
(a) No one is happy.
(b) No one can help but sin.
(c) Everyone is dying.
(d) Everyone is sick.

4. Finish the following line: "A world in which time is absolute is a world of ____________."
(a) Consolation.
(b) Unpredictability.
(c) Supremacy.
(d) Immediacy.

5. What is the woman in the shadows waiting for?
(a) To hear the church bells chime three times.
(b) To be arrested so she can keep her timeline of life intact.
(c) To hear a cardinal sing.
(d) To be carried back to her own time.

6. In the "10 May 1905" dream, why is one man sitting at a table weeping uncontrollably?
(a) His son has just passed away.
(b) His wife is dying of cancer.
(c) He was never able to tell his father that he loved him.
(d) He just lost his job.

7. What is the man on the fourth floor balcony looking down at?
(a) A blue coat.
(b) A child playing in the street.
(c) A dog looking for food.
(d) A red hat.

8. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, why do children who have left the city curse their parents?
(a) For bearing them in the first place.
(b) For trying to hold them forever.
(c) For loving them too much.
(d) For extending their life.

9. What happens to light in the "14 May 1905" dreams?
(a) There is only blinding white light.
(b) Light exists as ribbons of multifaceted color.
(c) There is no light at all, only pure darkness.
(d) There is no intensity; light looks like fireflies.

10. What month is it in the "19 April 1905" dream?
(a) April.
(b) October.
(c) November.
(d) January.

11. Where does the man in the leather jacket work at in Berne?
(a) A tavern.
(b) A pharmaceutical.
(c) A bank.
(d) A brasserie.

12. Where is Besso's visitor from?
(a) Prague.
(b) Venice.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

13. According to the narrator, what did "just as things will be repeated in the future, all things now happening" do?
(a) Never happened before.
(b) Happened a million times before.
(c) Only happened once before.
(d) Happened a hundred times before.

14. According to the narrator in the "28 April 1905" dream, what is visible in all places?
(a) The past.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) The future.
(d) Time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Einstein in the novel?

2. What rushes forward to envelope the people in the last seconds before the world ends?

3. What do those of religious faith see time as evidence of?

4. According to the dream on "24 April 1905," what happens when the two "times" meet?

5. Where do all of the people gather one minute before the end of the world?

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