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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 is an accurate description of Jason?

2. Where does E.D. spend most of his time?

3. What were two causes of the failure of the NK movement?

4. Who calls Tyler in March?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the first "casualty" of the event that comes to be known as "Spin" and what is one consequence of this casualty?

3. How will ecopoiesis work on Mars?

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. 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?

6. Why do you think many people, not just in this novel, but in real life, tend to turn to religion in a severe crisis?

7. How does Tyler seem to continue in his mother's "footsteps"?

8. One might be a piece of foreshadowing in this chapter?

9. What does Tyler and Ina talk about and what does Ina say?

10. What movement does Diane belong to and how is that movement characterized? How is the behavior of the movement ironic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Power and powerlessness are two themes that occur throughout Spin. Discuss one of the following:

Define personal power and discuss the concept fully as applied to two different characters.

Define powerlessness and discuss the concept fully as applied to two different characters.

Compare and contrast the way E. D. uses power to the way Jason uses power.

Essay Topic 2

Once some scientists begin to understand the properties of Spin, it is evident that time flows differently inside versus outside of the Spin membrane. Discuss the following:

Compare the properties of time between the inside and outside of Spin.

From the perspective of time, what are the advantages of living inside Spin? The disadvantages?

From the perspective of time, what are the advantages of living outside Spin? The disadvantages.

What do you think it says about the nature of time in that it seems to flow differently inside of Spin versus on the outside?

Essay Topic 3

Scientists believe Spin is artificially created by a technologically superior Alien race. Discuss the following:

What are some of the reasons people believe Spin has occurred? How many of those reasons seem possible? Why?

Is it "right" for an alien species to make the decision to create Spin without first consulting the governments of Earth? Why or why not?

Do you think it is more comforting to believe Spin is a natural phenomenon, a technological phenomenon, or an act of God? Explain your response.

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