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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who returns from Phobos that Nadia enjoys a connection with in Part 3?
(a) Simon.
(b) Ann.
(c) Arkady.
(d) Phyllis.

2. Who does Maya find intriguing more than attractive?
(a) Frank.
(b) Ursula.
(c) John.
(d) Hiroko.

3. Who develops genetically engineered microorganisms, or GEMS, that can survive on the planet?
(a) Writers.
(b) Astronauts.
(c) Technicians.
(d) Bioengineers.

4. What has been placed into each windmill that forces the terraforming of Mars?
(a) The heating element.
(b) The polar cap.
(c) The blue moss.
(d) The broken light.

5. Who does Nadia talk to about love issues?
(a) Frank.
(b) Arkady.
(c) Maya.
(d) John.

6. Who argues the beauty of Mars only exists in the mind?
(a) Ann.
(b) John.
(c) Maya.
(d) Sax.

7. Who on Phobos does Nadia talk to about the issues on the Mars colony?
(a) Maya.
(b) John.
(c) Arkady.
(d) Frank.

8. How many of the final hundred that would travel to Mars as the first colonizers are Russian?
(a) 45.
(b) 55.
(c) 40.
(d) 35.

9. Who attempts to portray Christ as a literary figure and is rebutted by Phyllis?
(a) Frank.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Maya.
(d) John.

10. Whose disappearance foreshadows problems for the farm group?
(a) Michel's.
(b) Hiroko's.
(c) Jan's.
(d) Frank's.

11. Who is the leader of the group that wishes to forgo terraforming?
(a) John.
(b) Sax.
(c) Simon.
(d) Anna.

12. What path is the landscape religion taking in relation to the Reds and Greens?
(a) The Greens'.
(b) The middle.
(c) Completely different.
(d) The Reds'.

13. Who is working on an impact hammer when it malfunctions?
(a) Maya.
(b) Frank.
(c) Nadia.
(d) John.

14. Who are the newcomers from Earth?
(a) Boones.
(b) Arabs.
(c) Terrans.
(d) Toivans.

15. Who is the psychiatrist sent to McMurdo Station in Antarctica with a hundred and fifty finalist scientists?
(a) Robinson.
(b) Chalmers.
(c) Manon.
(d) Duval.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a suicide gene?

2. In what shape does the team find ice at the poles?

3. What does Michel think he is in terms of the psychiatric program?

4. What does Nadia assist in building that is underground and pressurized?

5. What bombards the crew, creating a storm and making the crew members bond?

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