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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, after the TM-31 is put in a holding pattern because of traffic, the narrator leaves the capsule with who?
(a) A sexbot.
(b) A repair bot.
(c) A pilot bot.
(d) A friend bot.

2. In Chapter 10, the narrator realizes he must return to corporate HQ for what reason?
(a) A promotion ceremony.
(b) To attend a meeting.
(c) Maintenance on his vehicle.
(d) Additional training.

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

4. In Chapter 14, Charles awakens late and rushes where to get his repaired capsule?
(a) Hanger 83.
(b) Hanger 7.
(c) Hangetr35.
(d) Hanger 57.

5. Chapter 3 begins with the protagonist thinking about his father reading a storybook to him when he was what age?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

6. In Chapter 4, the protagonist says Universe 31 can be what at night when it is aglow and everyone is awake?
(a) Amazing.
(b) Violent.
(c) Claustrophobic.
(d) Thought-provoking.

7. What is the name of Charles's time capsule's on-board computer?
(a) ED.
(b) TAMMY.
(c) ROBIN.
(d) MARTHA.

8. What statement follows "When it happens, this is what happens" in the opening of the book?
(a) "I hate myself."
(b) "I love myself."
(c) "I forget myself."
(d) "I shoot myself."

9. Who is credited with the first quote in the book, which begins, "We are never intimately conscious of anything but a particular perception"?
(a) David Hume.
(b) Arthur Miller.
(c) Luke Skywalker.
(d) David Deutsch.

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

11. What occupation does Charles have in the narrative?
(a) Spaceship Captain.
(b) Astrophysicist.
(c) Meteorologist.
(d) Time machine repairman.

12. What happened to the rest of the United States when Los Angeles and New York City merged, creating the capital city of Universe 31?
(a) It was demolished.
(b) It merged with Chicago.
(c) It became a different country.
(d) It was swallowed.

13. Charles and Ed watch buskers playing what kind of music in Chapter 11?
(a) Rock and Roll.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Eleven-dimensional.
(d) Country-dimensional.

14. The continuing loop in which Charles's mother relives lasts for how long in a hypothetical period of her life?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 6 hours.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) 60 minutes.

15. An excerpt titled, "capital city" says the capital of Universe 31 contains what percent of the universe's robot population?
(a) 21.
(b) 58.
(c) 35.
(d) 87.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles misused what device by cruising too often in Present Indefinite in Chapter 10?

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

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?

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

5. What is defined as occurring when a time traveler stops remembering in order to keep going?

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