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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tyler want Jason to do?
(a) Go to Texas to see a specialist.
(b) Get as much bed rest as possible.
(c) Come to the clinic for a physical exam.
(d) Go to France to see a specialist.

2. Who is Jala's ex-wife?
(a) Ibu Ina.
(b) Mila.
(c) Jae.
(d) Alle.

3. Who is Simon?
(a) Jason's business partner.
(b) Tyler's cousin.
(c) Diane's lover.
(d) The car mechanic.

4. Who is chosen because of his skills and wide cultural knowledge.
(a) Wun Ngo Wen.
(b) Wen Woo Gog.
(c) E.D.
(d) Tyler.

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

6. What is the status of Lawton's aerostats manufacturing company?
(a) It has been disbanded.
(b) It went into bankruptcy.
(c) Very powerful.
(d) Still limping along.

7. Why does Diane call Tyler regularly?
(a) To reassure Tyler that she is ok.
(b) To tell him of the progress of her pregnancy.
(c) To find out about Jason's health.
(d) To keep him informed of the sect's whereabouts along with Diane's whereabouts.

8. What happens the next morning?
(a) The sun appears as usual.
(b) The news talks of the house explosion.
(c) It is still dark at 10 am.
(d) The children go off to school.

9. What is a consequence of the way time works with the Spin?
(a) The Universe will expire in 10 years of Earth time.
(b) No consequence other than the usual decay over time.
(c) The Universe will be infintely young.
(d) The Sun will decay in such a way that the blue planet will be swallowed by the burning star.

10. What does Diane tell Tyler when she returns to the motel room?
(a) They have to leave right away.
(b) The lack of symptoms means Tyler cannot create antibodies.
(c) They have to leave in two days.
(d) The medicine was not the correct dosage.

11. How is Simon?
(a) He keeps a close check on his wife and is suffering a spiritual crisis.
(b) He has left Diane.
(c) He has died.
(d) He, too, has MS.

12. What does Jala do?
(a) He runs an import-export business as a cover-up for an illicit emigration brokerage.
(b) A space shuttle pilot.
(c) A astrophysicist.
(d) A stargate commander.

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

14. What can happen with the disease sometimes?
(a) Complete remission.
(b) It actually heals other problems in the body.
(c) It mutates.
(d) Complications.

15. What do Jason, Tyler and Diane do that evening?
(a) They go to a disco.
(b) They bring out old photo albums and reminisce.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simon need?

2. About what do the children wonder?

3. By this time in the story, what is Jason doing?

4. How does Jason relapse the coming year from the time the three friends were together?

5. What does Tyler decide to do?

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