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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jason offer Simon?
(a) A job with the company.
(b) A new car.
(c) A way to go off world.
(d) A ride in Jason's Ferrari.

2. Where do Tyler, Jason and Diane meet together again?
(a) At an economic summit.
(b) At a summer house in the Berkshires.
(c) At a space summit.
(d) At a political rally when Tyler is running for President.

3. Why is NK created?
(a) To help colonizing other planets.
(b) A new way to communicate.
(c) As a way of revitalizing old Rome.
(d) Out of fear from the coming end of the world.

4. What does Tyler decide to do?
(a) Write a music opera.
(b) Write down his story.
(c) Land on an ice floe.
(d) Go out into the crowds at Times Square.

5. What is ready in early winter?
(a) Seed capsules are ready to be sent from launch pads.
(b) The new Olympic ski slope.
(c) A space ship for intergalaxy travel.
(d) A new form of terraforming.

6. Who calls Tyler in March?
(a) Carol.
(b) Simon.
(c) E.D.
(d) Diane.

7. What does it appear that Jason has?
(a) ALS.
(b) Multiple Sclerosis.
(c) TB.
(d) A brain tumor.

8. Where is the drug from that Tyler uses?
(a) China.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Mars.
(d) France.

9. Where does Tyler hide while men are searching the clinic?
(a) In the cow's stall.
(b) In a rice paddy.
(c) In the barn loft.
(d) In the village well.

10. How are Jason's symptoms?
(a) He has had no symptoms yet.
(b) About the same.
(c) They are getting worse.
(d) They are better.

11. What does Spin offer to the young people of Earth?
(a) An incredibly long life.
(b) An early death.
(c) Nothing different.
(d) A life of incredible good health.

12. Upon what does Tyler reflect?
(a) How the ball is ascending just before midnight.
(b) The number of penquins on the ice.
(c) The bad quality of music videos these days.
(d) His past.

13. What is suspended indefinitely?
(a) The public school system.
(b) The writ of Habeas Corpus.
(c) Human rights.
(d) The space program.

14. What overwhelms Tyler?
(a) Reading old letters from his father to his mother.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Seeing Diane.
(d) Being beset by E.D. about Jason.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diane tell Tyler?

2. What type of MS does Jason seem to now have?

3. Where does Tyler have to move if he accepts the offer?

4. Why does Jason retreat to his rooms for months?

5. How does the Martian ambassador escape the Mars Spin?

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