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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the "22 May 1905" dream, how does time flow in the world described?
(a) Unevenly and fitfully.
(b) In accelerating spurts.
(c) Smoothly and consistently.
(d) In alternating phases of fast and slow.

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

3. Who is responsible for discovering the "speed effect?"
(a) Sir Handel Moritz of Bern.
(b) Mr. Randolph Whig of Surrey.
(c) Mr. Alan Mulhouse of Massac.
(d) Sir Archibald Barrett of Munich.

4. What animal are people who heed time compared to in the 3 June 1905 dream?
(a) Cats.
(b) Birds.
(c) Bears.
(d) Elephants.

5. How do the Laters walk and dress?
(a) The Laters walk absentmindedly and wear long dress like clothing.
(b) The Laters walk when they have to only and wear bed-clothes at all times.
(c) The Laters walk with an easy gait and dress in loose fitting clothes.
(d) The Laters walk hurriedly so as to not be accosted into doing something now and they wear robes.

6. What have those who live in the world of the "9 June 1905" dream determined is the only way to live?
(a) To ignore all others advice.
(b) To die.
(c) To do as much as they can, as soon as they can.
(d) To ask all others of their advice.

7. How is the world actually seen by its residents in the "5 June 1905" dream?
(a) Through the senses.
(b) Through sight alone.
(c) Through different lenses by different people.
(d) As though looking through the same camera for all inhabitants.

8. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, why does this world exist as it does?
(a) Time passes more slowly for those in motion.
(b) Time passes more slowly for those who keep order.
(c) Time passes in slow motion.
(d) Time passes more slowly for those in distress.

9. How is the population of the cities in the "9 June 1905" dreams split?
(a) In four: The Laters, the Nows, the Nevers, and the Always.
(b) In three: The Laters, the Nows, and the Nevers.
(c) In three: The Laters, the Nows, the Intentionals.
(d) In two: The Laters and the Nows.

10. In the "17 June 1905" dream, why does the young man tell his lover that he cannot see her again?
(a) Due to a gap in time, she grimaces.
(b) Due to a gap in time, she frowns.
(c) Due to a gap in time, she hesitates.
(d) Due to a gap in time, she lets on tear fall.

11. What does Einstein ask Besso for during the third Interlude?
(a) A sandwich.
(b) A cracker.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A coat.

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

13. In the "2 June 1905" dream, how does the story of the woman end?
(a) The "woman" nursing.
(b) The "woman" at her birth.
(c) The "woman" at her graduation from gymnasium.
(d) The "woman" in her mother's womb.

14. In the "15 June 1905" dream, what is the young woman staring at?
(a) A photograph of her boyfriend.
(b) A photograph of her dog.
(c) A photograph of a swing in her yard.
(d) A photograph of her as a child.

15. Where is Einstein looking as the second Interlude comes to a close?
(a) Towards the Bernese Alps.
(b) Towards Aare.
(c) Into space.
(d) Towards the town clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Besso invite Einstein to come to at the close of the second Interlude?

2. According to the dream on 3 June 1905, what is life a brief movement of?

3. Where are Besso and Einstein sitting in the second Interlude?

4. What is happening in the young woman's house in the "15 June 1905" dream?

5. What is the young woman staring at in the end of the "15 June 1905" dream?"

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