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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 refers to knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight?

2. Who does Charles ask the shuttle driver to pick up in Chapter 20?

3. While reading the book from the future, Charles notices that the words do what in Chapter 17?

4. In Chapter 16, Charles examines the book from the future, which is part autobiography and part what?

5. At Charles's request in Chapter 27, TAMMY calculates the probability of the occurrence discussed as once every how many years?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Charles discover in the book in Chapter 28?

3. What is symbolic about the scene in Chapter 25 with Charles and his father?

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

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

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

7. What theory is described in the excerpt called "decoherence and wave function collapse"?

8. What does Charles discover using the key in Chapter 29?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze the book from the future and its metaphorical meaning in the novel. How does the book relate to the theme of memory?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of emotional expression in the novel. How does Charles differ from TAMMY in his emotional responses? How does his mother's reaction in Chapter 23 reflect this theme?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss foreshadowing and symbolism in Chapter 10. What does the narrator seeing himself outside the time capsule foreshadow?

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