2. What is ready in early winter?
(a) A new form of terraforming.
(b) A space ship for intergalaxy travel.
(c) The new Olympic ski slope.
(d) Seed capsules are ready to be sent from launch pads.

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

4. Why does Jason retreat to his rooms for months?
(a) He is ill.
(b) He wants to gain the sympathy of his aloof parents.
(c) To search for the reason for the October Event.
(d) He is afraid of the school bullies.

5. About what do the children wonder?
(a) Whose house had just exploded into flames.
(b) If a star had been absorbed into a black hole.
(c) If the comet was the one that Mark Twain saw.
(d) If the sun will appear the next day.

6. What is the relation of time between inside and outside of Spin?
(a) Time is the same.
(b) Time passes much faster outside of Spin.
(c) There is no time either place.
(d) Time passes much faster inside of Spin.

7. What does Diane read from Tyler's writings that surprises her?
(a) That Tyler thought Diane was a uncommunicative child.
(b) That Tyler was more strongly impacted by the arrival of spin than Diane knew.
(c) That Tyler thought of Diane a great deal when they were children.
(d) That Tyler spends three years in Tibet learning to meditate.

8. What is one of Perihelion's projects?
(a) To find a cure for cancer.
(b) To find a cure for aging.
(c) To travel out of the galaxy.
(d) To colonize Mars.

9. Where is Diane living?
(a) With religious zealots.
(b) With her dad.
(c) In New Zealand.
(d) With her husband.

10. What does it appear that Jason has?
(a) Multiple Sclerosis.
(b) A brain tumor.
(c) TB.
(d) ALS.

11. What do Tyler and Jason discuss?
(a) Space travel.
(b) The medicines they are finding on other planets that might help Jason.
(c) The spin.
(d) Tyler's wife.

12. What happened to Tyler's Mom?
(a) She is lost in Africa somewhere.
(b) She has an auto accident.
(c) She suffers a major stroke.
(d) She is killed in a plane crash.

13. What does Spin offer to the young people of Earth?
(a) An incredibly long life.
(b) Nothing different.
(c) An early death.
(d) A life of incredible good health.

14. How long after the October Event does E.D. Lawton reveal the truth to Jason about the event?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 1 year.

15. Who does Jason invite Tyler to meet?
(a) Jason's heretofore unknown half brother.
(b) His fiance.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Wun Ngo Wen, a Martian ambassador.