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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Tyler fall in love with Diane?
(a) He loves her as a friend only.
(b) He has never loved her.
(c) When Diane was in high school.
(d) When Diane is 10 and her dog dies.

2. What does Jason tell Diane and Tyler later the night of the party?
(a) That Jason has been hired by the government to work on a special space project.
(b) The information his dad relays to Jason.
(c) That Jason is traveling to the Himalayas to seek answers.
(d) That Jason is building a space ship.

3. What does Diane tell Tyler?
(a) That she and Simon are only friends, not lovers.
(b) That she wants to leave Simon for him.
(c) That she hopes she is pregnant.
(d) That she does not intend to leave Simon.

4. How much has the universe outside of Spin aged over the last five years?
(a) The universe outside of Spin no longer exists.
(b) Five years.
(c) Not at all.
(d) Over five hundred million years.

5. What does Diane read from Tyler's writings that surprises her?
(a) That Tyler thought of Diane a great deal when they were children.
(b) That Tyler thought Diane was a uncommunicative child.
(c) That Tyler spends three years in Tibet learning to meditate.
(d) That Tyler was more strongly impacted by the arrival of spin than Diane knew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "October Event" come to be named?

2. What is disastrous about the party?

3. In what sort of membrane is the earth wrapped?

4. Who is Gisele?

5. What has disappeared from his mother's boxes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the cab take Tyler and Diane and who do they meet?

2. What does Tyler and Ina talk about and what does Ina say?

3. What is the first "casualty" of the event that comes to be known as "Spin" and what is one consequence of this casualty?

4. Why did the NK religion end?

5. What does Jason reveal about Perihelion's plans for Mars and why might this be significant?

6. What does Ina tell En to do and why?

7. What is the Chinese response to Spin and how would you interpret that?

8. How is Tyler doing with the medicine he has injected and why do you think he is taking the medicine when it has such terrible side effects?

9. What is the definition of ecopoiesis?

10. What similarity is there between what is happening with Tyler and Diane in the present and what is happening between Jason and Tyler in the past?

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