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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through August 2005: The Old Ones.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the carpenters begin doing on Mars?
(a) Building foundations for the Martian homes
(b) Building towns that look like those on Earth
(c) Demolishing Martian structures
(d) Making wooden structures to hold the Martians

2. Which of the following characters offers to take Silly's place as a worker?
(a) Grandpa Quartermain
(b) Silly
(c) Belter
(d) Teece

3. 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

4. What do the Martians gather to do?
(a) Celebrate a famous holiday
(b) Hear musicians play
(c) Listen to the rocket land
(d) Watch a play

5. What did Teece participate in many times at night?
(a) Lynchings
(b) Helping blacks become freee
(c) Rocket building
(d) Store sales

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following terms best describes how Williams feels when Mrs. Ttt slams the door in his face?

3. Which of the following descriptions does the author use to describe the construction crews?

4. What does Ylla sleep upon?

5. What is Driscoll doing when he first begins to feel the rain?

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