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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 disastrous about the party?
(a) A teen fell through the ice and drowned.
(b) The eclipse did not happen.
(c) One teen broke his neck.
(d) The blind date Diane arranges for Tyler.

2. Where are Diane and Tyler at the beginning of the book?
(a) At a hotel in NYC.
(b) At home in Beverly Hills, Ca.
(c) In a plane over Anarctica.
(d) In a hotel in Padang, Indonesia.

3. What does Tyler decide to do?
(a) Land on an ice floe.
(b) Write down his story.
(c) Go out into the crowds at Times Square.
(d) Write a music opera.

4. What overwhelms Tyler?
(a) Being beset by E.D. about Jason.
(b) Seeing Diane.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Reading old letters from his father to his mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Tyler's Mom?

3. What is Lawton's political influence?

4. What is the "October Event"?

5. How does Jason relapse the coming year from the time the three friends were together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What incident does Tyler recall and what theme does this incident reveal?

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

4. 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?

5. How will ecopoiesis work on Mars?

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

7. What is a consequence of the time difference inside and outside of Spin?

8. What does E.D. reveal to Jason about the membrane called "Spin"?

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

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

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