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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 Jason offer Simon?
(a) A ride in Jason's Ferrari.
(b) A new car.
(c) A job with the company.
(d) A way to go off world.

2. What does the "October Event" come to be named?
(a) Spin.
(b) Fall Equinox.
(c) All Saint's Day.
(d) 12-day Revolution.

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

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

5. How are Jason's symptoms?
(a) He has had no symptoms yet.
(b) About the same.
(c) They are better.
(d) They are getting worse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the satellites like that fell to Earth after the October Event?

2. What does Jason recall?

3. Who is Tyler called to replace?

4. How long after the October Event does E.D. Lawton reveal the truth to Jason about the event?

5. How are Jason's symptoms progressing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. What is one theme that first appears in this chapter?

6. Describe the overall approach of the author to the plot.

7. How is Tyler doing with the medicine he has injected and why do you think he is taking the medicine when it has such terrible side effects?

8. Both Jason and Tyler wonder what the Hypotheticals (the name given to the fictional Alien race possibly responsible for the Spin) aimed to accomplish with the Spin. What do you think may be accomplished?

9. Why do all the rockets sent to Mars need to reach the membrane simultaneously?

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

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