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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Time Out of Joint.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relation of time between inside and outside of Spin?
(a) There is no time either place.
(b) Time passes much faster outside of Spin.
(c) Time passes much faster inside of Spin.
(d) Time is the same.

2. What is the "October Event"?
(a) When Trotsky and Lenin took over Russia.
(b) Halloween.
(c) The disappearance of the moon and stars.
(d) Fall Soltice.

3. What are Tyler Dupree and his two friends, the thirteen-year-old twins, Diane and Jason Lawton, doing?
(a) Sitting on the lawn discussing the stars and other things.
(b) Dancing at a teen disco.
(c) Writing a paper on astrophysics.
(d) Playing video games.

4. About what do the children wonder?
(a) If the sun will appear the next day.
(b) If the comet was the one that Mark Twain saw.
(c) Whose house had just exploded into flames.
(d) If a star had been absorbed into a black hole.

5. What were the satellites like that fell to Earth after the October Event?
(a) They were as expected.
(b) They were as if brand new.
(c) They had been transformed into some strange material.
(d) They were showing sings of aging far beyond what was expected.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Russian cosmonaut who survives the landing of his vessel deemed?

2. What happens the next morning?

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

4. What is the bright disc suspended in the sky?

5. Where are Diane and Tyler at the beginning of the book?

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