Timescape Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Timescape? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. After hearing about Kennedy's not-quite assassination, Penny and Gordon go to the beach and do what?


Swim in the waves
Go for a jog
Have a picnic
Go surfin' U.S.A.
Q. Renfrew notices how skewed the foundation of his house is when he does what?


Puts up dry wall
Remodels the whole house
Builds shelving to hold preserves
Finds a portal to another dimension
Q. What theoretical, faster-than-light particle allows the transfer of messages between time and space?


Bosons
Hadrons
Warpons
Tachyons
Q. What type of poisonous substances are localized in South America at the start of the novel, but soon spread, creating a full on worldwide ecological disaster?


Mardi Gras Beads
Acid Rain
Diatom Clouds
Tree Fungi
Q. Markham uses which famous paradox to explain the difficulty and potential danger of communicating with the past?


The Liar Paradox
Zeno's Paradox
The Grandfather Paradox
Lazy-Bones Paradox