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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 relation of time between inside and outside of Spin?
(a) Time passes much faster outside of Spin.
(b) There is no time either place.
(c) Time passes much faster inside of Spin.
(d) Time is the same.

2. Where is Diane living?
(a) With her husband.
(b) In New Zealand.
(c) With her dad.
(d) With religious zealots.

3. Where do Tyler, Jason and Diane meet together again?
(a) At a political rally when Tyler is running for President.
(b) At a space summit.
(c) At a summer house in the Berkshires.
(d) At an economic summit.

4. 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) Patient confidentiality.
(d) Jason asked him not to say anything.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tyler hope he does not lose?

2. What happens the next morning?

3. Who greets Tyler and Diane in a small village outside of Padang?

4. What is an accurate description of Jason?

5. Where are Diane and Tyler at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the NK religion end?

3. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

7. Why does Tyler quickly stop reading the letters from his father to his mother and what do you think is the implication of it?

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

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

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

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