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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 is the Jordan Tabernacle?
(a) A Synagogue on the Jordan River.
(b) A Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
(c) The originial site of the Morman chuch in the East before they moved to Utah.
(d) A spin-off movement of NK.

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

3. Who is Jala?
(a) A cousin to Sutra.
(b) A man from the space station on the moon.
(c) A man from Mars.
(d) A Minang.

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

5. What is one possible outcome?
(a) Death.
(b) Complete healing.
(c) Loss of speech.
(d) COPD.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After humans colonize Mars, what happens?

3. What does the "October Event" come to be named?

4. What does Jason want from Tyler?

5. Who is Simon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Diane leave Tyler in the hotel room?

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

4. How will ecopoiesis work on Mars?

5. 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?

6. What disease does Tyler say Jason has and what are the implications?

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

8. Why did the NK religion end?

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

10. Briefly describe the different paths the three friends, Diane, Jason, and Tyler choose as adults and after the coming of Spin.

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