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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through November 2005: The Watchers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tax was abolished?
(a) Sales
(b) Property
(c) Automobile
(d) Poll

2. What year does the woman claim it is when they arrive at the Marian town of 'Green Bluff'?
(a) 1926
(b) 1940
(c) 2000
(d) 1999

3. What is reported to have happened to a man named Nomland who lived near the canal?
(a) Committed suicide
(b) Has taken the human form of Tom
(c) Murdered by Tom
(d) Has seen and gone with Martians

4. What do the children recite?
(a) Cuss words
(b) Rhymes
(c) Oaths
(d) Songs

5. What threatens Earth and changes the make-up of the second wave?
(a) Plague
(b) War
(c) Famine
(d) Invasion

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ylla agree to stay home?

2. Who did the Pioneers bring next to Mars?

3. Which group seems to be most affected by the happenings on Mars?

4. Which emotion or feeling best describes the feeling of most of the Martians in August of 1999?

5. Who does LaFarge and his wife find in their backyard one rainy night?

(see the answer key)

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