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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 how Williams feels when Mrs. Ttt slams the door in his face?
(a) Excited
(b) Surprised
(c) Angered
(d) Bewildered

2. Which current meteorological term could be used to describe the climate changes experienced during January of 1999?
(a) Seasonal Interlude
(b) Global warming
(c) Blizzard
(d) Flooding

3. What was Driscoll given to help him plant seeds across Mars?
(a) Garden hoe
(b) Pick axe
(c) Shovel
(d) Motorcycle

4. Which of the following is a synonym for exodus as used in the following sentence? Rather than building a new civilization, the mass exodus from Earth is simply rebuilding the Earth.
(a) Mass departure
(b) Denial
(c) Flight
(d) Trip

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Xxx declare Williams?

2. What type of relatives do crew members find in the town?

3. What does the captain believe the Martians can teach the men?

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

5. What do the residents nickname the season?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the inhabitants refer to this time as "Rocket Summer"?

2. Describe the cities built on Mars.

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

4. What is different about the first wave of men from America and the second wave of men from America?

5. How do the Martians feel about about the strange happenings?

6. How many cities were created and how did the women help to make them more homey?

7. Why is Ylla K unhappy in her marriage?

8. What is the House in reality?

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

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

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