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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. Who is Gisele?
(a) Jason's lover.
(b) Tyler's dog.
(c) A neighbor and friend of Tyler's who works as a waitress by day and as a prostitute by night.
(d) Diane's dog.

2. What do Tyler and Diane do while Jason and Simon are gone?
(a) Argue.
(b) Take a nap.
(c) Walk around the lake.
(d) Make love.

3. Why can't Jason do what Tyler wants?
(a) He doesn't believe it will help.
(b) He is going to San Francisco for a conference.
(c) He can't walk.
(d) He is too busy.

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

5. What path does Tyler choose?
(a) To become a doctor.
(b) To travel with the people colonizing Mars.
(c) To go into politics.
(d) To become a Catholic priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Jordan Tabernacle?

2. How long after the October Event does E.D. Lawton reveal the truth to Jason about the event?

3. How does Jason feel towards Simon?

4. What does Carol say Belinda was?

5. Why is NK created?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does E.D. reveal to Jason about the membrane called "Spin"?

2. Why did the NK religion end?

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

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

5. What is the implication of a world where time moves much more slowly compared to the rest of the Universe?

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

7. What does Tyler and Ina talk about and what does Ina say?

8. How will ecopoiesis work on Mars?

9. 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?

10. What is the first "casualty" of the event that comes to be known as "Spin" and what is one consequence of this casualty?

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