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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Martian ambassador escape the Mars Spin?
(a) He blast through it.
(b) He slips through a large hole near the pole of the planet.
(c) It does not fall into place until after the ambassador left Mars.
(d) He does not manage to leave Mars.

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

3. What type of MS does Jason seem to now have?
(a) A particularly virulent type.
(b) The very mild type.
(c) Acute drug-responsive Multiple Sclerosis.
(d) Acute drug-resistant Multiple Sclerosis.

4. To what does Jason call everyone's attention?
(a) Lights flickering in the sky.
(b) The flock of strange birds settling on the lake.
(c) The hovercraft over the lake.
(d) The meal that is getting cold.

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

6. What does Tyler use as a means of saying nothing about Jason's condition?
(a) Jason asked him not to say anything.
(b) Patient confidentiality.
(c) He does not yet know what is wrong with Jason.
(d) The need to know.

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 launch of the rockets that will bring the seeds of life to Mars.
(d) They watch the superbowl and get drunk.

8. What is the Red Heifer?
(a) An idol the Summerians worshipped.
(b) A pub in downtown Orlando.
(c) A statue they find on Mars.
(d) A strange religious cult.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Where is Perihelion located?
(a) Near Boston.
(b) In Washington, D.C.
(c) In Houston.
(d) Near NASA at Cape Canaveral.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much changed on Earth right after the October Event?

2. Who is Simon?

3. What is the status of Lawton's aerostats manufacturing company?

4. What is the grand plan for Mars?

5. What is the Jordan Tabernacle?

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