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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the capital city of Universe 31?

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

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

4. In Chapter 5, the protagonist recalls that when he played as a boy, everyone wanted to be whom?

5. The inhabitants of Universe 31 say it has a wide what, based on the concept of the place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator advise to the client in Chapter 8? What is his assessment of his clients' desires?

2. What does the narrator say his mother taught him in Chapter 13? What is significant about this?

3. Why is TAMMY crying in Chapter 2?

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

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

6. What leads to Charles's outburst in Chapter 15? What does he discover on the ship?

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

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

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

10. Where is client the narrator contacts in Chapter 8? What did she use her time machine for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the themes of time and memory in the novel. How are time and memory related, according to the narrator?

Essay Topic 2

Identify and analyze the narrative style and setting of the novel. In what person and tense is the narrative written?

Essay Topic 3

Define the genre of metafiction and analyze the stylistic elements of the novel. How does the novel's style reflect metafiction?

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