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

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

3. What does Jason want from Tyler?
(a) To marry Diane.
(b) To do some medical experiements on Mars.
(c) For Tyler to check him over thoroughly as he is not feeling well.
(d) To be a bug in the ear of NIH.

4. Who is En?
(a) Alle's son.
(b) Ina's husband.
(c) The ten-year-old son of Ina's nephew.
(d) Ina's son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tyler doing as he hides in the hotel?

2. What would happen if the protective membrane were removed?

3. What is Tyler offered about five years after the time at the summer house?

4. What does Diane decide?

5. What is Lawton's political influence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jason reveal about Perihelion's plans for Mars and why might this be significant?

2. How does the general population respond to Spin?

3. One might be a piece of foreshadowing in this chapter?

4. 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?

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

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

8. How will ecopoiesis work on Mars?

9. Why does Jason hire Tyler to care for him?

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

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