View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A book excerpt, "reality, in relation to," says Universe 31 is what percent reality at the core?
(a) 5.
(b) 44.
(c) 65.
(d) 17.

2. As his mother's time loop ends, what does Charles do to snap her out of it in Chapter 13?
(a) Taps on the window.
(b) Yells at her.
(c) Uses a computer to stop the loop.
(d) Stomps his foot.

3. Charles stays in shape in his machine by lifting what as a weight?
(a) Spare parts.
(b) A water jug.
(c) His dog.
(d) His toolbox.

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

5. Charles's mother cashed in her retirement funds to buy how many years of reliving in a continuing loop?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

6. In Chapter 12, the narrator remembers being driven home from the park at what age by his father?
(a) 14.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

7. What has the Tense Operator been set to for some time in Chapter 1?
(a) Present-Indefinite.
(b) Current-Limited.
(c) Past-Temporary.
(d) Historical-Section.

8. Charles rescued his dog as he was about to drift into what?
(a) A nebula.
(b) An asteroid.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A lake.

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

10. What is on the lampshade pattern in Charles's memory with his father in the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Moons an planets.
(b) Time machines and stars.
(c) Dogs and cats.
(d) Robots and spaceships.

11. Who is credited in the beginning of the book for the quote, "Everything we are is at every moment alive in us"?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) David Deutsch.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Luke Skywalker.

12. Who is credited in the beginning of the book for the quote, "Time does not flow. Other times are just special cases of other universes"?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) Luke Skywalker.
(c) David Hume.
(d) David Deutsch.

13. In Chapter 13, the narrator is hit with the realization that he has let a decade slip away, but he doesn't feel like what?
(a) Achieving anything.
(b) Justifying it.
(c) Catching up with anyone.
(d) Wasting any more time.

14. In Chapter 5, the protagonist recalls that when he played as a boy, everyone wanted to be whom?
(a) Johnny Cash.
(b) Clint Eastwood.
(c) Luke Skywalker.
(d) Hans Solo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, Charles reflects that he is a momma's boy who learned what from his mother?

2. 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?

3. Charles's mother gives him a wrapped box from where in Chapter 13?

4. On the way home in Chapter 13, Charles gives five dollars to who?

5. What is the name of Charles's time machine?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 504 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample