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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. Near Charles in the beginning of Chapter 20, he sees what familiar-seeming objects?
2. What refers to logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability?
3. What does Charles find inside the book by the page where the groove was in Chapter 28?
4. Charles and his father's main discovery in Chapter 22 is that time travel does what?
5. The excerpt "conjectures, currently unproven but believed to be true" posits that a moment has measurable substance, there are fine numbers of moments, there is no global time, and ______ is a theory of regret and limitations.
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the director described in Chapter 25? What does Charles's father tell him?
2. How are self-reflection and self improvement symbolized in Chapter 21?
3. What is metaphorical about Charles's transcription of the book in Chapter 16?
4. Where are Charles and his father in the memory in Chapter 25?
5. What is described in the excerpt "residual objects in closed time-like curves"?
6. What is symbolized by Charles's father's second machine described in Chapter 26?
7. What is described in the excerpt "TM-31 calibration protocol"? How is this metaphorical?
8. What is the author's statement about contemporary life in Chapter 30? How is this symbolized?
9. What discoveries does Charles make of his childhood in Chapter 21?
10. What does Charles discover in the box from his mother in Chapter 28?
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
Define the genre of metafiction and analyze the stylistic elements of the novel. How does the novel's style reflect metafiction?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the character development of Charles in the narrative and his actions in Chapters 18 and 19. Why does Charles choose to go to the end of the book and what happens when he does?
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