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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What name has science given to the Alien race possibly responsible for the Spin?
2. What can happen with the disease sometimes?
3. What does Jason offer Simon?
4. Where are Diane and Tyler at the beginning of the book?
5. Who is Jala's ex-wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the definition of ecopoiesis?
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. Why does Tyler quickly stop reading the letters from his father to his mother and what do you think is the implication of it?
5. What might be a possible reason that the end of the story is given at the beginning of the novel?
6. 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?
7. What is the Chinese response to Spin and how would you interpret that?
8. What disease does Tyler say Jason has and what are the implications?
9. Where does the cab take Tyler and Diane and who do they meet?
10. What incident does Tyler recall and what theme does this incident reveal?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Characters are often labeled as protagonist, antagonist or secondary characters. Discuss the following:
Define protagonist, antagonist and secondary characters.
Who do you think is (are) the protagonist(s)? Why?
Who do you think is (are) the antagonist(s)? Why?
Who are two important secondary characters? Why do you choose them?
Essay Topic 2
Jason, Tyler and Diane are in their early teens when Spin first appears around the Earth. Discuss one of the following:
How does Jason deal with Spin when it first occurs and as an adult? Is his response mentally healthy? Courageous? Emotional, intellectual or both? Explain with examples.
How does Tyler deal with Spin when it first occurs and as an adult? Is his response mentally healthy? Courageous? Emotional, intellectual or both? Explain with examples.
How does Diane deal with Spin when it first occurs and as an adult? Is his response mentally healthy? Courageous? Emotional, intellectual or both? Explain with examples.
Essay Topic 3
Cultural norms typically change fairly slowly, though inexorbitably over generations. Sometimes, though, a cataclysmic event will compress change so that it occurs rapidly, sometimes seemingly overnight. Spin is just such an event that spends up change. Discuss the following:
What happens to cultural norms at the time Spin first appears?
Does changes in the culture seem accelerated? Why or why not?
How has the American culture changed over the years from the time Spin first arrives to when Tyler and Diane leave Earth?
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