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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. After what did the settlers name Spendor Hill?

2. What is reported to have happened to a man named Nomland who lived near the canal?

3. What destroys the central computer?

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

5. Who bans Stendahl from building the house on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Walter Gripp suddenly try calling the largest beauty salon on Mars?

2. What do the new inhabitants of Mars call the elderly people who have begun to come to Mars?

3. Why do the owner of the luggage store and Father Peregrine believe that people will no longer be coming to Mars?

4. How does Timothy recognize that his family is not really on a vacation?

5. What does Teece see as a victory at the end of the chapter even though the blacks had gotten into the rockets and have left Earth?

6. What do you think LaFarge hears in the backyard and why does he bolt the door and not explore the noise?

7. What leads Elma, Sam's wife, to tell him that it might be another million years until Sam has a customer at his hotdog stand?

8. Why do you believe Father Peregrine purchases a new valise before he leaves the luggage store?

9. How do the people on Earth send messages to the people on Mars and what message repeats constantly?

10. What does Stendahl reply when asked what he is planning to do with the house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the colonization of Mars change throughout the novel? Do you believe the changes represent a circle? In what way or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that describes the consequences of the invasion of Mars by the Earthlings. How do you feel about the invasion? Why do you feel this way?

Essay Topic 3

Many of the people that came to inhabit Mars never truly felt it was their home. Why is this the case? How does the author show this throughout the novel? Provide specific examples from the novel.

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