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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 is defined as a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape?
(a) Black hole.
(b) Dark Moon.
(c) Galaxy.
(d) Nebula.

2. A book excerpt,"TM-31 calibration protocol," concludes that a time machine can only go where?
(a) Where the person wants it to go.
(b) Into the past.
(c) Into the future.
(d) Where it is programmed to go.

3. In Chapter 20, the shuttle driver gets up, slaps Charles, kisses him, and then does what?
(a) Stomps on his foot.
(b) Punches him in the stomach.
(c) Pushes him out of the shuttle.
(d) Shoots him in the head.

4. Charles and his father are on their way to show their time machine to the director of what institution in Chapter 25?
(a) The Institute of Conceptual Technology.
(b) The Institute of Space Time.
(c) The Time Traveler Institute.
(d) The Institute of the Cosmos.

5. In Chapter 16, Charles examines the book from the future, which is part autobiography and part what?
(a) Daydream.
(b) Movie script.
(c) Comedy.
(d) Field manual.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 20, Charles falls screaming into an abyss, and then someone says he is in what?

2. In Appendix A, Charles is told he should get into the capsule with his father and return to whom?

3. Chapter 20 opens with Charles standing in a temple before various statues of whom?

4. An excerpt titled "Wineberg-Takayma Radius" discusses the proposition that a universe must be no larger than a certain size if it is to produce what?

5. What refers to the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's statement about contemporary life in Chapter 30? How is this symbolized?

2. What is described in the excerpt "residual objects in closed time-like curves"?

3. What discovery did Charles and his father make about time travel in Charles's memory in Chapter 22?

4. Where are Charles and his father in the memory in Chapter 25?

5. How is the director described in Chapter 25? What does Charles's father tell him?

6. Against whose advice does Charles jump to the end of the book in Chapter 18? Why?

7. What is symbolized when Charles watches his mother's reaction in Chapter 23?

8. Why much Charles refocus his efforts in Chapter 27?

9. How is Charles's book from the future metaphorical for memory?

10. How are self-reflection and self improvement symbolized in Chapter 21?

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