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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. How did Jason communicate with the replicators?
2. How do they know Spin is gone?
3. Where is Tyler taken?
4. What does Tyler discuss with Diane on the phone?
5. What does Tyler discuss with Margie?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Molly say when Tyler confronts her?
2. Why is Jason dying?
3. What does Wun say about the replicator technology and why it might be helpful?
4. What does Simon say about his conflict between Diane and his beliefs?
5. What does Tyler do about Diane's disease and what does he tell Jason?
6. What happens in the summer with the sky and why does Simon call Tyler? How does Tyler respond?
7. What happens when Tyler rides along with Wun in a convoy that takes them to Perihelion?
8. How does Tyler and Diane escape from Condon's ranch?
9. What does Jason report to Tyler about the replicators a few years after they were launched?
10. What does Simon tell Tyler about Diane when Tyler arrives at Condon's ranch?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When the time relationship of life in Spin become known, it is obvious that most young people will not attain an elderly age. People respond differently to the knowledge that their planet will become uninhabitable in their lifetimes. Discuss the following:
Discuss some of the ways characters in the book respond to the idea of a shortened life span.
One can choose to face certain death in a courageous fashion or cowering in fear and denial. Discuss several characters and how they face their deaths, whether because of the end of the world or from some other reason such as illness.
What would you choose to do with your life if you knew that it would end prematurely?
Essay Topic 2
Science fiction, though fiction, has a marvelous way of sometimes heralding the future. Much of what was written as "science fiction" in the 1940s and 1950s is now reality. Discuss the following:
What in Spin do you think could become a reality in the future? Why?
Do you think human beings create a future reality by envisioning it in the present? Why or why not?
If humans do indeed create reality in the future by envisioning it in the present, what sort of responsibility does that suggest for present "creators"? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
The term "teraforming" is quite common in the genre of science fiction, including Spin. Discuss the following:
What is a general definition for teraforming as found in your research? Does the definition fit the way teraforming is used in Spin?
How does teraforming appear in Spin? Explain giving examples.
Does the concept of teraforming seem far fetched in "real" life? Why or why not?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of teraforming?
Is there any possibility that Earth was actually teraformed by advanced beings? Why or why not?
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