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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. How old is Charles when he hears his father working in the garage on something more powerful than a mere time machine in Chapter 26?
(a) 6.
(b) 25.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

2. The institution Charles and his father visit in Chapter 25 represents what to Charles's father?
(a) The power of the human brain.
(b) A life with many regrets.
(c) A life full of achievement.
(d) The hallowed halls of scientific achievement.

3. Chapter 22 describes the first time-travel trip taken by Charles and his father which lasted how long?
(a) Five seconds.
(b) Less than a minute.
(c) Five minutes.
(d) Seven minutes.

4. 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) Joy.
(c) Luck.
(d) Anxiety.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The institution that Charles and his father are going to in Chapter 25 is an imposing building where?

2. It occurs to Charles in Chapter 20 that desire is what?

3. What does Charles do when the woman in Chapter 20 says she wants him to stay and be a part of her family?

4. In Chapter 21, Charles looks from the capsule and sees what that appears to be what giant object?

5. What does Charles find inside the envelope in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is symbolized by Charles's father's second machine described in Chapter 26?

2. What discoveries does Charles make of his childhood in Chapter 21?

3. What is symbolized by Charles and his father being unable to land the machine in Chapter 22?

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

5. What does the excerpt titled "Wineberg-Takayma Radius" discuss?

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

7. Why is the setting of Chapters 20 and 21 important?

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

9. How does Charles describe his frame of mind in Chapters 20 and 21?

10. What is metaphorical about Charles's and his father's discovery about time travel in Chapter 22?

(see the answer keys)

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