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

2. Who calls Tyler in March?
(a) Simon.
(b) Carol.
(c) E.D.
(d) Diane.

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

4. How much has the universe outside of Spin aged over the last five years?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Over five hundred million years.
(c) Five years.
(d) The universe outside of Spin no longer exists.

5. What does Diane do?
(a) Sings a child's nursery rhyme to Tyler.
(b) Screams as the plane slides close to the edge of the floe.
(c) Kisses Tyler when the clock hits midnight.
(d) Injects Tyler with some liquid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jala do?

2. Where does Tyler have to move if he accepts the offer?

3. Who does not know about the effects of Spin?

4. Why does Diane leave the hotel?

5. How are Jason's symptoms progressing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Chinese response to Spin and how would you interpret that?

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

3. Why do you think many people, not just in this novel, but in real life, tend to turn to religion in a severe crisis?

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

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

6. How does Tyler feel and what does he do?

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 will ecopoiesis work on Mars?

9. Why is the one Russian cosmonaut that makes it back to Earth alive after Spin considered crazy?

10. Where does the cab take Tyler and Diane and who do they meet?

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