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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where are Diane and Tyler at the beginning of the book?
(a) At home in Beverly Hills, Ca.
(b) In a hotel in Padang, Indonesia.
(c) At a hotel in NYC.
(d) In a plane over Anarctica.

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

4. What is the NK?
(a) The New Kingston Planet.
(b) The Nostra Kistra.
(c) A Christian Hedonist movement.
(d) The New Keflar Shield.

5. What does Diane see happen?
(a) The stars flicker and disappear.
(b) A bright comet streaking through the sky.
(c) An explosion down the street.
(d) A meoteorite flashing past.

6. What is ecopoiesis?
(a) A rare skin disease created by Spin.
(b) The study of the ecological impact of Spin.
(c) The way an alien race they meet on Mars regenerates.
(d) A term coined by a scientist in 1990 to refer to the activity of creating a biosphere where none exists.

7. What does Jason want from Tyler?
(a) To do some medical experiements on Mars.
(b) To marry Diane.
(c) For Tyler to check him over thoroughly as he is not feeling well.
(d) To be a bug in the ear of NIH.

8. What do Tyler and Jason discuss?
(a) The medicines they are finding on other planets that might help Jason.
(b) Space travel.
(c) Tyler's wife.
(d) The spin.

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

10. What is the bright disc suspended in the sky?
(a) A solar flare.
(b) An alien spaceship.
(c) A white hole.
(d) An imitation of the original star that used to light up the sky.

11. What is Tyler doing as he hides in the hotel?
(a) Writing a letter to his mother.
(b) Working out a star system map.
(c) Recovering from the medicine.
(d) Playing chess with Diane.

12. What does Ina tell En?
(a) To warn her if any strangers come looking for the clinic.
(b) To go to Padang for medicines.
(c) To stay away from the clinic for a few days.
(d) To go find his father and bring him to the clinic.

13. At what are Diane and Tyler looking?
(a) Times Square.
(b) The glaciers.
(c) The television.
(d) The archway.

14. Why does Jason retreat to his rooms for months?
(a) To search for the reason for the October Event.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is afraid of the school bullies.
(d) He wants to gain the sympathy of his aloof parents.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jason recall?

2. What does Tyler hope he does not lose?

3. How can this disease be treated?

4. What does it appear that Jason has?

5. Who does Diane have to consult before accepting Tyler's offer?

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