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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 month is it in the "19 April 1905" dream?

2. If a person holds no ambitions in the world described in the "4 May 1905" dream, what happens to him?

3. What do all of the people who have gathered together one minute before the end of the world do?

4. How many dimensions does the man in the leather coat live in simultaneously?

5. According to the "14 May 1905" dream, why do children who have left the city curse their parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can one identify people who have been transported back in time? (16 April 1905)

2. Explain the meeting between the two couples in the 4 May 1905 dream.

3. What is the tragedy of the world described in the 10 May 1905 dream?

4. What do the untidy people of the 11 May 1905 world do in life?

5. Why do people in the 26 April 1905 dream choose to live in the mountains?

6. According to the first Interlude, why is Besso worried about Einstein?

7. What happens one minute before the end of the world?

8. Why is there no communication between people of the present and people from the future? (16 April 1905)

9. Describe the people who live by "bodily time."

10. At the end of the 26 April 1905 dream, what are the negative effects of living in the mountains?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the relationship between Einstein and Besso. Who do you think the relationship is more important to? Why? Who do you think the relationship is more taxing on? Why? Is the relationship relevant to the understanding of the novel? Cite specific examples from the text to support your responses.

Essay Topic 3

Choose a representation of time from the novel and examine why it is not a realistic representation of time. Cite specific examples from the text to support your responses as to why this "world" is the most unrealistic from the novel.

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