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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 2026 in this chapter, how long has it been since the Great War on Earth?
(a) 30 years
(b) 5 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 20 years

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

3. Which of the following could best describe how the planet Mars has changed?
(a) It has become more and more ethnically divided
(b) It has become more and more uncontrollable
(c) It has become more Earth-like
(d) It has become polluted

4. How does the Thomas family arrive on Mars?
(a) Government vehicle
(b) Family rocket
(c) Martian car
(d) Military vehicle

5. What are Hathaway's other family members?
(a) Other Earth people who had gone insane
(b) Robots
(c) Illusions
(d) Martians

6. How far away does Gripp eventually drive away from Marlin Village?
(a) 10,000 miles
(b) 100,000 miles
(c) 1,000 miles
(d) 1,000,000 miles

7. Who made the prediction that Mars would become an altered planet by the new settlers?
(a) Williams
(b) Spendor
(c) Teece
(d) Stendahl

8. What animal kills Garrett as he comes to investigate the House of Usher?
(a) Ape
(b) Snake
(c) Couger
(d) Lion

9. What does William Stendahl hope to recreate on Mars?
(a) House of Usher
(b) Washington monument
(c) Edgar Allen Poe's personal home
(d) White House

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

11. How do the people on Earth let the people on Mars know what is going on on Earth?
(a) Radio broadcasts
(b) Morse-code
(c) Incoming settlers on rockets
(d) Sattelite broadcats

12. What did Teece participate in many times at night?
(a) Rocket building
(b) Helping blacks become freee
(c) Lynchings
(d) Store sales

13. What happened to the McClellans?
(a) They died
(b) The moved to another Earth town
(c) They moved to Mars
(d) They are on the rocket on its way back from Mars

14. Why did the settlers who are now living on Mars decide to come to Mars?
(a) Right to freedom
(b) Leave behind bigotry
(c) Escape criminal charges
(d) Travel and tourism

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the family burn to keep warm at night?

2. What new category of people has begun to travel to Mars?

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

4. Who does LaFarge and his wife find in their backyard one rainy night?

5. In which Poe story was the death the same as the manner in which the real Garrett died?

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