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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 do the children do that night?
(a) Finally go to sleep around midnight.
(b) Huddle in fear under their beds.
(c) Stay up and listen to the newscasts.
(d) Go with their father to an observatory.

2. What does Carol say Belinda was?
(a) Happy to go on to a better place.
(b) The Lawtons' pillar of strength.
(c) The best mom she has ever had.
(d) An enigma.

3. What is one of Perihelion's projects?
(a) To find a cure for cancer.
(b) To colonize Mars.
(c) To find a cure for aging.
(d) To travel out of the galaxy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the relation of time between inside and outside of Spin?

3. What is disastrous about the party?

4. Who belongs to NK?

5. Where does E.D. spend most of his time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might be a possible reason that the end of the story is given at the beginning of the novel?

2. Why does Tyler decide to write the story of him and his friends?

3. How does Jason giving Simon a ride in his Ferrari so that they can get a part for their broken car show the contrast between Jason and his sister, Diane?

4. What is the definition of ecopoiesis?

5. How does the general population respond to Spin?

6. Why did the NK religion end?

7. Briefly describe the different paths the three friends, Diane, Jason, and Tyler choose as adults and after the coming of Spin.

8. How is Tyler doing with the medicine he has injected and why do you think he is taking the medicine when it has such terrible side effects?

9. How does Tyler seem to continue in his mother's "footsteps"?

10. Where does the cab take Tyler and Diane and who do they meet?

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