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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. What does Gomez think the night smells like, but isn't sure that it really has a smell?
(a) Nighttime
(b) Wonder
(c) Daylight
(d) Time

2. What sport are the children engaging in during January of 1999?
(a) Bowling
(b) Roller skating
(c) Sledding
(d) Swimming

3. What happens to many women that night?
(a) Run out of their own own homes
(b) Awake from dreams
(c) Get pregnant
(d) Rape

4. What is Pritchard afraid of?
(a) Police
(b) Atomic war on Earth
(c) Martians
(d) Space travel

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. and Mrs. K are ____________.

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

3. What does Black believe the Martians used to project images into reality?

4. Which of the following characters was the archeologist?

5. What happens on Mars to dissipate loneliness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ylla K unhappy in her marriage?

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

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

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

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

6. How does this chapter show that Spendor's assumptions about the Earthlings ruining Mars was coming true?

7. How does Yll take care of the problem of Captain York?

8. How do Gomez and Muhe communicate and what do they realize about their attempt to converse?

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

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

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