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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 rises over Mars?
(a) Sun
(b) Green star
(c) Moon
(d) Rocket ship

2. What does Pikes substitute for Garrett after he is killed?
(a) Clone
(b) Robot
(c) Monkey
(d) Actor

3. What does Biggs do which angers Spendor significantly?
(a) Making fun of the Martians
(b) Smokes and drinks and becomes more rowdy
(c) Attacking his fellow crew mates
(d) Drops empty bottles in the canal

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

5. How would you describe the feeling of all of the Martians during this time of singing foreign tunes?
(a) Full of dreams
(b) Full of hot anger
(c) Full of resignation
(d) Full of cold fear

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the carpenters begin doing on Mars?

2. Where does Wilder ask to have Spendor shot?

3. How does Driscoll oxygenate Mars?

4. What does Gomez think the night smells like, but isn't sure that it really has a smell?

5. What fills the Dead Sea during some seasons?

(see the answer key)

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