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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.?
(a) Edge.
(b) Territory.
(c) Limit.
(d) Apex.

2. In Chapter 30, Charles asks TAMMY how long they were in the loop and she replies that time never moved forward after he shot himself, because he tried to skip forward in time and entered what?
(a) The void.
(b) A black hole.
(c) A nebula.
(d) The abyss.

3. In what year was the author Charles Yu born?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1955.

4. The institution that Charles and his father are going to in Chapter 25 is an imposing building where?
(a) On a hill above town.
(b) Next to a river.
(c) In the middle of the woods.
(d) In the center of a wide valley.

5. What does TOAD stand for in the narrative?
(a) Textual Object Analysis Device.
(b) Thought Orienting Achievement Drone.
(c) Time Orienting Analysis Drone.
(d) Technical Orbiting Achievement Device.

6. What refers to the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time?
(a) Carbon copy.
(b) Psychic moment.
(c) Fond memory.
(d) Deja vu.

7. An excerpt called "decoherence and wave function collapse" says that a unified theory of chronodiegetics would combine the forces of regret, counterfactual elements and what?
(a) Achievement.
(b) Luck.
(c) Joy.
(d) Anxiety.

8. In Chapter 20, Charles realizes that the shoes he had seen belonged to whom?
(a) His mother.
(b) Himself.
(c) Linus Skywalker.
(d) His father.

9. An excerpt called "residual objects in closed time-like curves" describes the hypothetical "Book from _____."
(a) Inner earth.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) Outer space.
(d) Nowhere.

10. Where does the groove in the side of the book open to in Chapter 28?
(a) Page 156.
(b) Page 325.
(c) Page 201.
(d) Page 43.

11. In Chapter 18, Charles wants to give up, but TAMMY says he must continue through what?
(a) His agony.
(b) Tough times.
(c) His memories.
(d) The time loop.

12. What does Charles do when the woman in Chapter 20 says she wants him to stay and be a part of her family?
(a) Yells at her.
(b) Runs for the door.
(c) Jumps through the window.
(d) Sits down.

13. Charles realizes in Chapter 20 that the room he is in is a construct of what?
(a) His father's ideal life.
(b) His private hell.
(c) His perfect world.
(d) A world without change.

14. How old was Charles when the UTM-21 was developed?
(a) 16.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 18.

15. In Chapter 24, Charles concludes that what are perfect time machines?
(a) Horses.
(b) People.
(c) Cars.
(d) Planes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does the clock show in the scene of the kitchen in Charles's boyhood home in Chapter 28?

2. What refers to that which is concerned with abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, or truth?

3. In Chapter 25, Charles's father talks slowly about the invention, saying that the key is "the acquisition of" what?

4. Despite the fact that TAMMY and TOAD tell him it is a bad idea, Charles keys in the instructions to do what in Chapter 18?

5. While reading the book from the future, Charles notices that the words do what in Chapter 17?

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