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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 does Tyler use as a means of saying nothing about Jason's condition?
(a) He does not yet know what is wrong with Jason.
(b) The need to know.
(c) Jason asked him not to say anything.
(d) Patient confidentiality.

2. What is Jason called in an article?
(a) A puppet.
(b) A dead man's facade.
(c) A formidable figure.
(d) A fraud.

3. Who is chosen because of his skills and wide cultural knowledge.
(a) E.D.
(b) Tyler.
(c) Wun Ngo Wen.
(d) Wen Woo Gog.

4. At what are Diane and Tyler looking?
(a) Times Square.
(b) The television.
(c) The glaciers.
(d) The archway.

5. How can this disease be treated?
(a) There is no treament.
(b) With a drug "cocktail."
(c) With surgery.
(d) With electroshock treatments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bright disc suspended in the sky?

2. What happens when the seeds with which they teraform Mars are mature?

3. By this time in the story, what is Jason doing?

4. What does Simon need?

5. What is the NK?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the general population respond to Spin?

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

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

4. Why does E. D. know about the attributes of Spin and why does he reveal this information to Jason?

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

6. What is the definition of ecopoiesis?

7. 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?

8. Define the literary term flashback and give an example of its use in this novel.

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

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

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