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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charles see interacting with his mother when he visits his family's home in Chapter 13?
(a) A sexbot.
(b) A hologram of himself.
(c) His father.
(d) A group of cats.

2. What is defined as occurring when a time traveler stops remembering in order to keep going?
(a) A loop in time.
(b) A lapse in time.
(c) A break in time.
(d) A loss of time.

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

4. In what person is the book written?
(a) First.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Third.

5. 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?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her grandmother.

Short Answer 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?

2. An excerpt from the book, "page 101," says that who will write the book How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe?

3. What refers to the original or model on which something is based or formed?

4. Charles describes standing at the center of Loop City as like being a character within what?

5. In Chapter 9, Charles claims to have had a one-night stand with a human-like creature once, but he has even given up coin-operated ____ because they're not much fun.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the narrator's memory of his father in Chapter 12?

2. How does the narrator describe being in Loop City in Chapter 11?

3. What is revealed about the narrator in Chapter 14?

4. What symbolism and foreshadowing can be seen as the narrator arrives in Loop City in Chapter 10?

5. How is nostalgia defined in the excerpt "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for"?

6. Who does the narrator describe in Chapter 7? How does he communicate with this person?

7. What has caused the problem with the narrator's ship in Chapter 10? What is symbolic about this?

8. What is the reality of the setting like in the novel? How does the author express the abstractions of the setting?

9. How is the size of Universe 31 described in the novel?

10. How does the narrator describe his mother in Chapter 3? What time period is she reliving?

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