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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do travelers from the future envy?
2. According to the narrator, why do people wear watches?
3. According to the narrator, what do parents treasure given they think they may not witness it again?
4. What does the narrator want readers to suppose time is?
5. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the first Interlude, why is Besso worried about Einstein?
2. What do the untidy people of the 11 May 1905 world do in life?
3. What happens one minute before the end of the world?
4. Why do schools close one year before the end of the world?
5. What effect does height have in the 26 April 1905 dream?
6. Explain the meeting between the two couples in the 4 May 1905 dream.
7. Describe Einstein's appearance at the patent office.
8. Why are some people unhappy in the world where time exists as a circle?
9. At the end of the 26 April 1905 dream, what are the negative effects of living in the mountains?
10. What is the problem living life within the confines of solitary moments? (14 April 1905)
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On the back of the novel, James Gleick is quoted for the novel saying, "No novelist, physicist, or philosopher has offered such a wonderful vision of what time has been or might be." What implication does this set up for the understanding of Einstein himself? What problems may this quote have for the author's intent of writing the novel? Why might Gleick's statement be misunderstood as negative towards Einstein and, therefore, the author himself? Cite specific examples from the text to support your responses.
Essay Topic 2
Reread the 3 June 1905 dream. What "problems" do you find exist in this dream? What realities could actually exist in this world and what "realities" could not? What are the forces that work against each other in this dream? Cite specific examples from the text to support your responses.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the Great Clock. What problems are associated with placing all trust in a manmade object? What are the benefits associated with placing all trust in a synthetic object? Would you choose to place you life in the motion of the clock or not? Why? Cite specific examples from the text to support your responses.
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