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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hathaway see in the sky on his walk back from the graveyard?
(a) Earth explode and parts shoot across the sky
(b) Invaders from another planet
(c) Stars shooting across the store
(d) Red flame from a rocket in the sky

2. In which Poe story was the death the same as the manner in which the real Garrett died?
(a) The Fall of the House of Usher
(b) The Cask of Amontillado
(c) The Murder in the Rue Morgue
(d) The Raven

3. Who did the Pioneers bring next to Mars?
(a) Pioneers
(b) Government
(c) Elderly
(d) Workers

4. Who did the sophisticates bring next to Mars?
(a) Government
(b) Pioneers
(c) Elderly
(d) Workers

5. 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

6. What destroyed many of the buildings and people in Allendale, California?
(a) Atomic war
(b) Earthquakes
(c) Martians
(d) Fire

7. What term does the author use to describe the elderly?
(a) Useless people
(b) Unwanted people
(c) Mummy people
(d) Seasoned people

8. What do the parents of the boys do when the boys return home?
(a) Make them take a bath
(b) Make them show them how to play the game
(c) Make them tell the firemen what they did
(d) Make them pray

9. What does Sam Parkhill open on Mars that is the first of its kind?
(a) Luggage store
(b) Travel agency
(c) Convience market
(d) Hot dog stand

10. How do the fathers punish the boys when they return home?
(a) Encourage them to continue to play the game
(b) Praise them
(c) Punish them with beatings
(d) Punish them using time out

11. Where did the war tthat Father Peregrine discussed with the proprietor of the luggage store take place?
(a) France
(b) China
(c) Spain
(d) Germany

12. What is reported to have happened to a man named Nomland who lived near the canal?
(a) Murdered by Tom
(b) Has taken the human form of Tom
(c) Has seen and gone with Martians
(d) Committed suicide

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Hathaway's other family members?

2. What was at the end of each Morse-code message?

3. After what do the settlers on Mars rename the Martian landscape?

4. What color does the face of the Martian seem to be?

5. What does Pikes substitute for Garrett after he is killed?

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