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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 does Tyler convince the motel manager to let him spend the night there?

2. Why is traveling at night getting more dangerous?

3. What does Tyler tell Ina about the Martians?

4. What are the replicators?

5. What do they pretend the passenger in the ambulance has?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tyler do and how does he feel when men burn down Ina's clinic?

2. Where do Diane and Tyler go at the end of the book? What was the ultimate purpose of the Spin membrane?

3. How does Tyler and Diane escape from Condon's ranch?

4. Why is Jason dying?

5. What does Jason report to Tyler about the replicators a few years after they were launched?

6. What happens shortly after the Spin membrane is gone?

7. What does Molly say when Tyler confronts her?

8. What does Jason tell Tyler about the Martian ambassador, conditions on Mars and why he was sent?

9. How is Jason's health, what does he ask Tyler to do and how does Tyler respond?

10. What does Tyler say might be the Hypotheticals motivation as far as the Spin goes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Time is a concept that is easy to define but much more difficult to understand, both in Spin and in "real" life. Discuss the following:

Define time and then explain time.

Many philosophers say that time is a "human construct." What do you think this term means? If it is true, why do you think humans "constructed" time?

What would be the nature of our life if time either as a construct or absolute did not exist?

Essay Topic 3

E. D. tells Jason that information is generally valuable in the hands of those who can use it. Discuss the following:

Analyze and explain fully what you think E. D. believes about information.

How does access to information give E. D. and others of his ilk power? Give examples.

Compare a character who abuses the acquisition of information to one who uses it for the benefit of human kind.

Does what is discussed in this story about information have any validity in our own world? Explain.

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