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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 does Julia tell Si about the markings on Carmody's tombstone?

2. What is Si concerned about if Julia goes back to her own time?

3. Who is the first person Si meets at 19 Gramercy Park?

4. Who owns the house at 19 Gramercy Park?

5. The day after the incident at Jake's office, who comes to the boarding house and asks for Si and Julia?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Chapter 12 opens with Si in the past, what two sketches does he make?

2. As Si and Julia hide in a corner of Jake's office, what happens between Carmody and Jake?

3. Who is Jake Pickering and why is he not happy to meet Si?

4. What is the Ladies' Mile?

5. Who does Si tell Julia he is?

6. Where are Julia and Si when Si tells her the truth of who he is?

7. Why is Jake happy to see Si again in Chapter 17?

8. How does Si's conversation with a bus driver change Si's view of people in 1882, and what does he decide to do as a result?

9. Why might a woman in Julia's time feel that marrying a man who is a good provider is more important than anything else?

10. When Si visits 19 Gramercy Park in the present, what might he have hoped to learn by asking the young woman who answered the door if she knew of Julia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Time and Again has three main plots; the time travel project, Si's relationship with Julia, and the conflict between Jake and Carmody. Describe each of these plots.

Essay Topic 2

One of the time travelers at the agency accidentally eliminated a man from history. Choose one of these three persons and tell how they affected the world and what the world may be like if they had never existed.

1. Ben Franklin

2. Albert Einstein

3. Thomas Edison

Essay Topic 3

Most stories have a "bad guy," or antagonist. In Time and Again there were two; one in the present and one in the past. Who were the two antagonists and, though they lived in different times, how are they the same? How are they different?

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