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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Sam demand leave his shop?
(a) Father Peregrine
(b) Lavina and Tom
(c) All workers from China and Mexico
(d) A Martian

2. Where does William show the family Martians?
(a) In the graveyards
(b) Reflection in the canal
(c) In the mountains
(d) In the historical buildings

3. What has killed most of the Martians?
(a) Rocket ships
(b) Fire
(c) Chicken pox
(d) Themselves (suicide)

4. How far away does Gripp eventually drive away from Marlin Village?
(a) 100,000 miles
(b) 10,000 miles
(c) 1,000,000 miles
(d) 1,000 miles

5. With what does Sam threaten the Martian?
(a) Death
(b) Turning him over to the authorities
(c) The disease
(d) A shotgun

6. What do the students make while playing their game?
(a) Fire
(b) Photos
(c) Ashes
(d) Music

7. What happened to the McClellans?
(a) They are on the rocket on its way back from Mars
(b) The moved to another Earth town
(c) They moved to Mars
(d) They died

8. What new portion of civilization does the author indicate has begun to settle on Mars?
(a) Middle class
(b) Non-American settlers
(c) Ethnicities
(d) Sophisticates

9. What destroys the central computer?
(a) Martians
(b) Water
(c) Atomic war
(d) Fire

10. How do the people on Earth let the people on Mars know what is going on on Earth?
(a) Radio broadcasts
(b) Morse-code
(c) Incoming settlers on rockets
(d) Sattelite broadcats

11. Why did the Thomas family tell people they were going to Mars?
(a) To retrieve people left behind
(b) Vacation
(c) To rebuild Mars
(d) To live

12. What happens to the Martian who continually shifts into the form of deceased loved ones or enemies?
(a) Takes the form of Tom forever
(b) Moves away
(c) Moves in with Lavinia's family
(d) Dies

13. What does Hathaway see in the sky on his walk back from the graveyard?
(a) Earth explode and parts shoot across the sky
(b) Red flame from a rocket in the sky
(c) Invaders from another planet
(d) Stars shooting across the store

14. What does William Stendahl hope to recreate on Mars?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe's personal home
(b) House of Usher
(c) White House
(d) Washington monument

15. What happens at 9:00?
(a) The Earth explodes
(b) Settlers gather and destroy all Martians
(c) Earth begins to burn
(d) Mars catches on fire

Short Answer Questions

1. Which continent was obliterated according to the messages?

2. Which of the following characters believes he is the last human being left on Mars?

3. What are Hathaway's other family members?

4. How did Father Peregrine describe the fighting during the war in China when he was a boy?

5. What happens to the McClellans' house at the end of the chapter?

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