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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. Where is Perihelion located?
(a) Near Boston.
(b) Near NASA at Cape Canaveral.
(c) In Washington, D.C.
(d) In Houston.

2. What is the grand plan for Mars?
(a) Having it ready for colonization in two months.
(b) Mining operations.
(c) Medicinal manufacturing.
(d) Creating a biosphere.

3. What does Diane tell Tyler?
(a) That she hopes she is pregnant.
(b) That she wants to leave Simon for him.
(c) That she does not intend to leave Simon.
(d) That she and Simon are only friends, not lovers.

4. What does Tyler decide to do?
(a) Land on an ice floe.
(b) Go out into the crowds at Times Square.
(c) Write down his story.
(d) Write a music opera.

5. What does Tyler send Diane?
(a) A plane ticket to leave Simon.
(b) A book about religious cults and their hold on minds.
(c) 10,000 dollars.
(d) 500 dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Tyler fall in love with Diane?

2. What happens the next morning?

3. What does Spin offer to the young people of Earth?

4. Upon what does Tyler reflect?

5. What does Diane decide?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What does Ina tell En to do and why?

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

9. Do you think Jason is right to conceal his disease from his father who is the CEO of Perihelion?

10. 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?

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