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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) Dreaming.
(b) Regretting their past.
(c) Looking back.
(d) Checking the calendar.

2. In Chapter 9, the narrator returns in memory to his youth, when he watched his father make sketches of what?
(a) Landscapes.
(b) Alternate universes.
(c) Various animals.
(d) Airplanes.

3. By what name does Charles also refer to as The Women I Never Married?
(a) Marie.
(b) Chelsea.
(c) Tracy.
(d) Nancy.

4. In Chapter 9, Charles says time is a machine for converting pain into what that cannot be changed?
(a) Memories.
(b) History.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Love.

5. The inhabitants of Universe 31 say it has a wide what, based on the concept of the place?
(a) Psychological scale.
(b) Political focus.
(c) Variety of life forms.
(d) Imagined space.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose face does the narrator claim he sees his own turning into in the mirror in Chapter 1?

2. About what age is Charles in the narrative?

3. In Chapter 9, the narrator notes that he has been in his time capsule for about how long?

4. Phil is described by the narrator as easygoing, but he thinks he's what?

5. What is the name of Charles's dog?

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