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

2. Who does Diane have to consult before accepting Tyler's offer?
(a) Her astrological chart.
(b) The cult director.
(c) E.D.
(d) Simon.

3. Where does Jason work?
(a) Los Alamos, NM.
(b) Perihelion.
(c) Stargate Operations.
(d) In covert space operations for the European commonwealth.

4. What is Lawton's political influence?
(a) He has none.
(b) He is good friends with the mayor.
(c) Considerable.
(d) His political influence waned as his company went bankrupt.

5. Who greets Tyler and Diane in a small village outside of Padang?
(a) Alle Inae, a witch doctor.
(b) Ibu Ina, a doctor who own a small medical clinic just outside the town.
(c) No one.
(d) Jal Maler, a scientist who understands the spin better than anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tyler hide while men are searching the clinic?

2. How much has the universe outside of Spin aged over the last five years?

3. What is suspended indefinitely?

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

5. What does Diane read from Tyler's writings that surprises her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the general population respond to Spin?

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

4. What incident does Tyler recall and what theme does this incident reveal?

5. What is one theme that first appears in this chapter?

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

7. Why do you think most of the Lawtons converge on Washington, D.C. to be witho Belinda, who has suffered a severe stroke and is not expected to live?

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

9. 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?

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

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