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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Charles believes the present and chronology are overrated because most people who move ahead in time are always doing what?
(a) Regretting their past.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Looking back.
(d) Checking the calendar.

2. The protagonist holds a hologram of what in his hands when he communicates with Phil?
(a) The time machine.
(b) Phil's head.
(c) The earth.
(d) The universe.

3. A book excerpt, "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for," describes what as the human feeling of missing a familiar place never visited or fruitlessly longing to be another version of oneself?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Regret.
(c) Memories.
(d) Imagination.

4. Charles advises that if a person ever sees himself emerging from a time machine, he should do what?
(a) Run from himself.
(b) Shoot himself.
(c) Scold himself.
(d) Cry.

5. In the "Chronodiegetical Schematic" which opens the book, what is the subtitle for "A Series"?
(a) "Turbulent Theory of Time."
(b) "Tenseless Theory of Time."
(c) "Traditional Theory of Time."
(d) "Tensed Theory of Time."

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an expression or a proposition, often algebraic, asserting the equality of two quantities?

2. What refers to a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula?

3. What is on the lampshade pattern in Charles's memory with his father in the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What has the Tense Operator been set to for some time in Chapter 1?

5. Charles stays in shape in his machine by lifting what as a weight?

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