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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles describes his job as part of what industry in Chapter 8?
(a) "The self-consciousness industry."
(b) "The terrible memories industry."
(c) "The what went wrong industry."
(d) "The pain and crying industry."

2. What does Charles see interacting with his mother when he visits his family's home in Chapter 13?
(a) A sexbot.
(b) His father.
(c) A group of cats.
(d) A hologram of himself.

3. In Chapter 8, Charles tells the client she has used her time machine to go into an alternate past where she was present when who was dying?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

4. What does Charles's mother complain about when she speaks to him in Chapter 13?
(a) He calls too seldom.
(b) He needs a haircut.
(c) She feels old.
(d) Her time loop has grown boring.

5. In Chapter 24, Charles's father says the equations indicate their machine is doing what?
(a) Producing radiation.
(b) Colliding with other figures.
(c) Wasting energy.
(d) Miscalculating time.

Short Answer Questions

1. An excerpt from the book, "page 101," says that who will write the book How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe?

2. A book excerpt called "in the event you find yourself trapped in a time loop" gives the time loop victim advice, such as to look for the sequence of events in the loop, to accept blame for it, and to guard against entering what?

3. How does Charles enter his family's home in Chapter 13?

4. Charles's father makes the discovery that what can be a time machine in Chapter 24?

5. The maiden voyage of the time machine in Chapter 22 is a technical failure because Charles and his father had not figured out what?

(see the answer key)

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