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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mr. Aaa call and challenge Mr. Ttt to?
(a) Biking contest
(b) Song contest
(c) Duel
(d) Writing contest

4. What do many of the Earthlings headed for Mars feel a need to escape?
(a) Marriages
(b) Loneliness
(c) Poor environment
(d) Governmental control

5. What do the children recite?
(a) Oaths
(b) Rhymes
(c) Songs
(d) Cuss words

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the construction materials for the colonization of Mars come from?

2. What is the true name of the planet Mars according to the Martians?

3. Who leads the second Mars expedition?

4. The second waves constitute people that are from ______________.

5. How do the settlers of Mars come?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is Muhe's name alone a suggestion of a different time reference?

2. Why does Yll continue to become more and more annoyed with his wife, Ylla?

3. What does Pritchard's arrest represent as well as his reaction to the arrest?

4. How does Mr. Xxx feel about his own belief system and what choices would he make because of it?

5. How does the author convey the sense of importance at the rocket launch?

6. What is the reader left to infer that the author is referencing by using the term 'green star'?

7. How can the reader infer that a second expedition will be happening soon?

8. Why was Driscoll spurred to take action about the atmosphere on Mars and what action did he take?

9. Why does Black find that many of his crew members are abandoning the rocket ship?

10. What does the character of Pritchard represent in American society?

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