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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does this chapter show the beginning of?
(a) Mars colonization
(b) Mental breakdowns
(c) Murderous thoughts
(d) Destruction of the Earth civilization

3. What do many of the Earthlings headed for Mars feel a need to escape?
(a) Marriages
(b) Loneliness
(c) Governmental control
(d) Poor environment

4. Which of the following is a synonym for exodus as used in the following sentence? Rather than building a new civilization, the mass exodus from Earth is simply rebuilding the Earth.
(a) Trip
(b) Denial
(c) Flight
(d) Mass departure

5. Why does Ylla agree to stay home?
(a) To entertain a guest
(b) To wait for Captain York
(c) To aovid Yll
(d) To make Yll happy and avoid a fight

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

7. In what year does the book open?
(a) 1999
(b) 1998
(c) 2001
(d) 2000

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

9. Where does Muhe indicate that Gomez is from?
(a) Non-reality
(b) Past
(c) Present
(d) Future

10. Which group seems to be most affected by the happenings on Mars?
(a) Well-educated
(b) Women
(c) Men
(d) Children

11. What does Ylla's husband use to take them to town?
(a) Rockets
(b) Fire birds
(c) Boats
(d) Vehicle

12. What happens when Williams and his crew arrive at the House and introduce themselves?
(a) Clapping and cheering
(b) Hiding and indignation
(c) Angery calls
(d) Resigned sighs

13. Which emotion or feeling best describes the feeling of most of the Martians in August of 1999?
(a) Surprise
(b) Terror
(c) Relief
(d) Enlightenment

14. How do the Martians read?
(a) Moving fingers over raised letters
(b) Out loud
(c) Through telepathy
(d) By listening to songs

15. What type of background do most of the Americans come from who colonize Mars?
(a) Cultured
(b) Poverty
(c) Working class
(d) Deprived

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does Mr. Xxx hold?

2. How do the first settlers feel as the begin to colonize Mars?

3. How do the settlers of Mars come?

4. What is the agreement that Williams has signed?

5. From where was the rocket launched?

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