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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Sam threaten the Martian?
(a) The disease
(b) Turning him over to the authorities
(c) Death
(d) A shotgun

2. What does William tell his family was taking over the Earth way of life?
(a) Government
(b) Greed
(c) Mankind
(d) Science

3. Which of the following characters offers to take Silly's place as a worker?
(a) Teece
(b) Belter
(c) Grandpa Quartermain
(d) Silly

4. What did Silly say that Teece remarked was a triumph for Teece himself?
(a) No more lynchings
(b) Death to whites
(c) I'm leaving
(d) Mister

5. What surprise do Sam and Elma find in the rear seat of their own sand ship?
(a) The same Martian male they had just killed
(b) A government official
(c) Their dead son
(d) A Martian female

6. What does Hathaway do to celebrate what he believes is his eminent rescue?
(a) Sets the town of New New York on fire
(b) Opens a bottle of wine
(c) Prays at the graveyard
(d) Digs for archeological remains

7. Who does LaFarge and his wife find in their backyard one rainy night?
(a) A government official
(b) A Martian couple
(c) Their dead son, Tom
(d) Edgar Allen Poe

8. What new portion of civilization does the author indicate has begun to settle on Mars?
(a) Sophisticates
(b) Non-American settlers
(c) Ethnicities
(d) Middle class

9. After what do the settlers on Mars rename the Martian landscape?
(a) First explores
(b) Foreign countries
(c) Martian names
(d) Cities in Europe

10. What does the word autonomously mean as it is used in the following sentence: The house is designed to function autonomously.
(a) Without human intervention
(b) It is run by timers
(c) With the use of the robots
(d) Without the use of machines

11. Why did the Thomas family tell people they were going to Mars?
(a) To retrieve people left behind
(b) Vacation
(c) To rebuild Mars
(d) To live

12. Which of the following is the correct order of people that colonized Mars?
(a) Pioneers, sophisticates, workers, government, elderly
(b) Pioneers, workers, sophisticates, government, elderly
(c) Pioneers, government, workers, elderly, sophisticates
(d) Pioneers, elderly, sophisticates, government, workers

13. Where do the boys hike?
(a) Newest deserted Martian towns
(b) White snow covered mountains
(c) Mountains of ashes from the burnt bodies
(d) Crystal mountains

14. What happens to the Martian who continually shifts into the form of deceased loved ones or enemies?
(a) Dies
(b) Moves away
(c) Moves in with Lavinia's family
(d) Takes the form of Tom forever

15. What has killed most of the Martians?
(a) Rocket ships
(b) Themselves (suicide)
(c) Chicken pox
(d) Fire

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the author use to describe the elderly?

2. How did Father Peregrine describe the fighting during the war in China when he was a boy?

3. What do the students make while playing their game?

4. How do the people on Earth let the people on Mars know what is going on on Earth?

5. What do the two men discussing the war believe will happen to the people who are living on Mars?

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