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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through October 2002: The Shore.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What changes after the rocket is launched?
(a) Children's games
(b) House conditions
(c) Climate
(d) Mother's actions

3. Which insect does the author use to describe the rockets landing on Mars?
(a) Bees
(b) Maggots
(c) Locusts
(d) Flies

4. Which of the following descriptions does the author use to describe the construction crews?
(a) Plague carrying monsters
(b) T-rex dinosaurs
(c) Steel-toothed carnivores
(d) Termite infestations

5. What happens to many women that night?
(a) Run out of their own own homes
(b) Awake from dreams
(c) Get pregnant
(d) Rape

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the residents nickname the season?

2. How does Driscoll oxygenate Mars?

3. What are the canals filled with?

4. Who made up the first waves of settlers to Mars?

5. How do the guards classify the first two attempts to head toward Mars?

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