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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tragedy happened to LaFarge and his wife?
(a) Government took all of their posessions
(b) Son was killed on Earth
(c) They lost everything in a rocket explosion on the way to Mars
(d) Parents were killed on Mars

3. What do the students make while playing their game?
(a) Photos
(b) Fire
(c) Music
(d) Ashes

4. What do the two men believe will happen to the hundred thousand people who are due to arrive on Mars in the next few weeks?
(a) They will find another planet on which to hide
(b) They will not come
(c) They will all be killed
(d) They will arrive early

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the book open?

2. What rises over Mars?

3. What do the parents of the boys do when the boys return home?

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

5. What are the canals filled with?

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