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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 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 swallowed.
(b) It merged with Chicago.
(c) It was demolished.
(d) It became a different country.

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

3. 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 pilot bot.
(c) A friend bot.
(d) A repair bot.

4. Specifically, Charles's occupational title is "certified network technician" for what devices?
(a) F-grade family time transporters.
(b) T-Class personal-use chronogrammatical vehicles.
(c) Q-724 Skywalkers.
(d) R-type personal time machines.

5. A book excerpt called "in the event you find yourself trapped in a time loop" gives the time loop victim advice, such as to look for the sequence of events in the loop, to accept blame for it, and to guard against entering what?
(a) Hostile planets.
(b) Magnetic fields.
(c) Black holes.
(d) An alternate universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, the narrator remembers being driven home from the park at what age by his father?

2. What occupation does Charles have in the narrative?

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

4. By what name does Charles also refer to as The Women I Never Married?

5. What customers want, Charles says, is to repeatedly experience the _____ moments of their lives repeatedly.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator relate to TAMMY? What is her character like?

2. What does the theme park in Loop City symbolize?

3. How are the setting and protagonist of the novel described in Chapter 1?

4. How does the narrator describe Universe 31 at night? How big is his time capsule?

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

6. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

7. How is the correlation between human emotion and time travel symbolized in Chapter 9?

8. What robotic services are described in the excerpt "convenience, particular sadness of"?

9. What is metaphorical about the narrator's visit to see his mother in Chapter 13?

10. How is the narrator's existence metaphorical for contemporary society?

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