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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Walter Gripp live?
(a) Mountains
(b) Town
(c) Canal
(d) Earth
2. Which continent was obliterated according to the messages?
(a) North America
(b) Europe
(c) Australia
(d) Antarctica
3. Which of the following characters offers to take Silly's place as a worker?
(a) Silly
(b) Teece
(c) Grandpa Quartermain
(d) Belter
4. Why did Selsor stay behind on Mars?
(a) To eat whatever she wants
(b) To be able to take care of her busness
(c) To hide from the war
(d) To avoid jail on Earth
5. Which of the following could best describe how the planet Mars has changed?
(a) It has become more and more uncontrollable
(b) It has become more and more ethnically divided
(c) It has become more Earth-like
(d) It has become polluted
6. Who does LaFarge and his wife find in their backyard one rainy night?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe
(b) A government official
(c) A Martian couple
(d) Their dead son, Tom
7. What does Hathaway see in the sky on his walk back from the graveyard?
(a) Stars shooting across the store
(b) Earth explode and parts shoot across the sky
(c) Red flame from a rocket in the sky
(d) Invaders from another planet
8. How far away does Gripp eventually drive away from Marlin Village?
(a) 1,000,000 miles
(b) 10,000 miles
(c) 1,000 miles
(d) 100,000 miles
9. Who bans Stendahl from building the house on Earth?
(a) Office of the President of the United States
(b) Office of Labor and Statistics
(c) Environmental Protection Agency
(d) Office of Moral Climate
10. What term does the author use to describe the elderly?
(a) Seasoned people
(b) Useless people
(c) Mummy people
(d) Unwanted people
11. What kind of pain does Hathaway suffer from during this chapter?
(a) Head
(b) Leg
(c) Chest
(d) Arm
12. What does the family burn to keep warm at night?
(a) Government papers
(b) Abandoned homes
(c) Family history papers
(d) Rocket
13. Why did the Thomas family tell people they were going to Mars?
(a) Vacation
(b) To retrieve people left behind
(c) To live
(d) To rebuild Mars
14. Why did the settlers who are now living on Mars decide to come to Mars?
(a) Right to freedom
(b) Escape criminal charges
(c) Travel and tourism
(d) Leave behind bigotry
15. After what did the settlers name Spendor Hill?
(a) Where Spendor sat thinking about what to do
(b) Where Spendor's crew landed
(c) Where Spendor killed his crew mates
(d) Where Spendor was killed by his captain
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does William show the family Martians?
2. By 2026 in this chapter, how long has it been since the Great War on Earth?
3. Who did the sophisticates bring next to Mars?
4. Who made the prediction that Mars would become an altered planet by the new settlers?
5. How long does Gripp drive to get away from Selsor?
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