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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the grand plan for Mars?
(a) Mining operations.
(b) Creating a biosphere.
(c) Having it ready for colonization in two months.
(d) Medicinal manufacturing.

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

3. What name has science given to the Alien race possibly responsible for the Spin?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Weavers.
(c) Spinners.
(d) Hypotheticals.

4. How long after the October Event does E.D. Lawton reveal the truth to Jason about the event?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 5 years.

5. How does Jason relapse the coming year from the time the three friends were together?
(a) He relapses from his weight training program and can hardly walk.
(b) He has a bout of MS but recovers.
(c) He has a drug relapse and gets back on cocaine.
(d) He does not have a relapse because Tyler watches him closely.

6. How can this disease be treated?
(a) There is no treament.
(b) With surgery.
(c) With a drug "cocktail."
(d) With electroshock treatments.

7. What do Jason, Tyler and Diane do that evening?
(a) They bring out old photo albums and reminisce.
(b) They go to a disco.
(c) They watch the superbowl and get drunk.
(d) They watch the launch of the rockets that will bring the seeds of life to Mars.

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

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

10. In what sort of membrane is the earth wrapped?
(a) A membrane of a hydrogen compound.
(b) One that filters out objects, radiations and time.
(c) A layer of ozone depleted clouds.
(d) A layer of nitrogen.

11. What does the "October Event" come to be named?
(a) Fall Equinox.
(b) Spin.
(c) 12-day Revolution.
(d) All Saint's Day.

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

13. What is one possible outcome?
(a) Death.
(b) Loss of speech.
(c) COPD.
(d) Complete healing.

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

15. How does the general population react during the first few months of the October Event?
(a) Fear.
(b) Extreme curiosity.
(c) Total panic.
(d) Relative indifference.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jason tell Diane and Tyler later the night of the party?

2. What does Carol say Belinda was?

3. What is the Red Heifer?

4. How much has the universe outside of Spin aged over the last five years?

5. Where are Tyler and Diane waiting for Jason?

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