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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 the biggest problem since the end of Spin?
2. What does the Spin membrane start doing?
3. How do they know Spin is gone?
4. What is the morning's rising sun like after Tyler speaks to Jason?
5. With whom does Jason become integrated?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Tyler wonder about Diane and how does she respond?
2. What does Tyler do about Diane's disease and what does he tell Jason?
3. What happens in the summer with the sky and why does Simon call Tyler? How does Tyler respond?
4. What happens shortly after the Spin membrane is gone?
5. What does Jason tell Tyler about the Martian ambassador, conditions on Mars and why he was sent?
6. How is Jason's health, what does he ask Tyler to do and how does Tyler respond?
7. Why is Jason dying?
8. What does Jason report to Tyler about the replicators a few years after they were launched?
9. What happens when Tyler rides along with Wun in a convoy that takes them to Perihelion?
10. What does Wun say about the replicator technology and why it might be helpful?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Many books are written not just to entertain, but also because the author wants readers to think about one or more themes or issues. Discuss one of the following:
Follow the theme of fanaticism and analyze it thoroughly throughout the text, using specific examples.
Follow the theme of environmental responsibility and analyze it thoroughly throughout the text, using specific examples.
Discuss what might be the author's agenda in writing Spin, giving examples from the text and relating it to the "real" world.
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