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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tyler offered about five years after the time at the summer house?
(a) The position of Professor of Medicine at Harvard.
(b) A position as Jason's personal physician.
(c) The position of Surgeon General.
(d) The chance to go into space.

2. What can happen with the disease sometimes?
(a) It mutates.
(b) It actually heals other problems in the body.
(c) Complications.
(d) Complete remission.

3. What is a consequence of the way time works with the Spin?
(a) The Universe will be infintely young.
(b) No consequence other than the usual decay over time.
(c) The Universe will expire in 10 years of Earth time.
(d) The Sun will decay in such a way that the blue planet will be swallowed by the burning star.

4. What does Diane decide?
(a) To think about Tyler's offer.
(b) To decline Tyler's offer.
(c) Nothing.
(d) To accept Tyler's offer.

5. What is the "October Event"?
(a) The disappearance of the moon and stars.
(b) Halloween.
(c) When Trotsky and Lenin took over Russia.
(d) Fall Soltice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jason relapse the coming year from the time the three friends were together?

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

3. What do Tyler and Jason discuss?

4. What does Ina tell En?

5. What does Jala do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Tyler quickly stop reading the letters from his father to his mother and what do you think is the implication of it?

3. How does the general population respond to Spin?

4. What is the Chinese response to Spin and how would you interpret that?

5. 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?

6. How does Tyler feel and what does he do?

7. Why is the one Russian cosmonaut that makes it back to Earth alive after Spin considered crazy?

8. 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?

9. Define the literary term flashback and give an example of its use in this novel.

10. What is the implication of a world where time moves much more slowly compared to the rest of the Universe?

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