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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old is the house Mr. and Mrs. K live in?
(a) 100-century
(b) 1-century
(c) 1000-century
(d) 10-century

3. How do the first settlers feel as the begin to colonize Mars?
(a) Lonely
(b) Unsettled
(c) Relieved
(d) Happy

4. What does Pritchard want to do?
(a) Hold a violent protest against space travel
(b) Stop the rocekt from launching
(c) Watch the rocket take off
(d) Go in the rocket

5. How many people moved to Mars from Earth?
(a) 900,000
(b) 90,000
(c) 900
(d) 9,000

6. Where does Wilder ask to have Spendor shot?
(a) Chest
(b) Leg
(c) Shoulder
(d) Head

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

8. Which of the following terms best describes the dreams experienced during August of 1999?
(a) Surprising
(b) Enlightening
(c) Foreboding
(d) Reassuring

9. What does Ylla use to cook the evening meal?
(a) Lava
(b) Wine
(c) Nothing
(d) Ice

10. Which term best describes the reasons Earthlings have for settling on Mars?
(a) Varied
(b) The same
(c) Surprising
(d) Unique

11. How many men constitute the crew of the third expedition?
(a) 12
(b) 16
(c) 15
(d) 5

12. What season is it when the story opens?
(a) Winter
(b) Spring
(c) Summer
(d) Fall

13. Who made up the first waves of settlers to Mars?
(a) Women
(b) Singles only
(c) Married couples
(d) Men

14. Why does Driscoll feel it is imperative to oxygenate the atmosphere of Mars?
(a) To eliminate the Martians
(b) To make the scenery more like Earth
(c) The air is thin
(d) So it can support more Earthlings

15. What is Pritchard afraid of?
(a) Martians
(b) Police
(c) Space travel
(d) Atomic war on Earth

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Williams and his crew members placed?

2. Who leads the second Mars expedition?

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

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

5. What fills the Dead Sea during some seasons?

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