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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Russian cosmonaut who survives the landing of his vessel deemed?
(a) A font of information about the October Event.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) A hero.

2. How much changed on Earth right after the October Event?
(a) The tides reversed themselves.
(b) Nothing changed drastically.
(c) The sky was always bright blue.
(d) It never rains.

3. Where does Tyler go?
(a) To the site of the plane crash.
(b) To Africa.
(c) To Mars.
(d) To George Washington University Hospital.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Diane?

2. Who is Dr. Koenig?

3. What is the bright disc suspended in the sky?

4. What is one possible outcome?

5. What is a consequence of the way time works with the Spin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Simon is the person Diane seems to have chosen for her lover at this time in her life and yet Jason thinks Simon is the least possible good for Diane. What do you think Jason means by this?

2. What similarity is there between what is happening with Tyler and Diane in the present and what is happening between Jason and Tyler in the past?

3. What is the definition of ecopoiesis?

4. Describe the overall approach of the author to the plot.

5. Why does E. D. know about the attributes of Spin and why does he reveal this information to Jason?

6. Both Jason and Tyler wonder what the Hypotheticals (the name given to the fictional Alien race possibly responsible for the Spin) aimed to accomplish with the Spin. What do you think may be accomplished?

7. Why did the NK religion end?

8. What is the Chinese response to Spin and how would you interpret that?

9. What is known about Spin that would probably cause a general panic in the population of Earth were it to become common knowledge? Is it moral of those "in the know" to keep this information from the general population?

10. What is a consequence of the time difference inside and outside of Spin?

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