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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, how does the world exist?
(a) In slow motion.
(b) In a state of constant order.
(c) In constant motion.
(d) In a state of distress.
2. How is the world actually seen by its residents in the "5 June 1905" dream?
(a) Through different lenses by different people.
(b) Through sight alone.
(c) As though looking through the same camera for all inhabitants.
(d) Through the senses.
3. According to the narrator, the world described in the "11 June 1905" dream, is a world without what?
(a) A present.
(b) A past.
(c) A hope.
(d) A future.
4. What does the narrator want readers to "suppose" in the "9 June 1905" dream?
(a) That time exists in a vacuum.
(b) That people die only after they have achieved their dreams.
(c) That life exists in several dimensions at the same time.
(d) That people live forever.
5. What does the woman in the "2 June 1905" dream begin teaching?
(a) History.
(b) Literature.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Science.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the "29 May 1905" dream, why does this world exist as it does?
2. According to the "20 May 1905 dream, what must people do at the end of the day?
3. What month is it, in the "15 June 1905" dream, for the young man in the polytechnic in Zurich?
4. Why does the man at the graveside ("2 June 1905" dream) not weep for his friend?
5. What happens to the woman described in the "2 June 1905" dream?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what happens between the baker and the woman in the 17 June 1905 dream.
2. Describe the two different views people of the 15 June 1905 world can have.
3. In the 22 May 1905 dream, what happens for those who have seen a glimpse of their future?
4. How did the notion of the speed effect come to be known?
5. Why does the man at the graveside refuse to weep for his deceased friend?
6. Describe the life of a "Now."
7. In the 22 May 1905 dream, what happens for those who have not seen a glimpse of their future yet?
8. Why do sunset and sunrise babies become frightened when the light changes?
9. Describe the way that time is experienced in the 5 June 1905 dream.
10. What has the young woman at no. 27 Viktoriastrasse missed in her life because of the sudden thrust into the future?
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