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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. How many Martian cities were wiped out by the chicken pox?
(a) 4 out of 5
(b) 9 out of 10
(c) 1 out of 8
(d) 7 out of 8

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

3. Which insect does the author use to describe the rockets landing on Mars?
(a) Bees
(b) Flies
(c) Maggots
(d) Locusts

4. Where is the ship to land according to Ylla?
(a) Green Valley
(b) Green Acres
(c) Green Pond
(d) Green Apples

5. Where were Williams and his crew members placed?
(a) Asylum
(b) Jail
(c) Hospital
(d) Space institute

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this chapter show the beginning of?

2. What is Driscoll doing when he first begins to feel the rain?

3. What type of background do most of the Americans come from who colonize Mars?

4. Why does the woman singing on the stage run away frightened?

5. Who was the leader of the third expedition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are some of the reasons that the Earthlings had for coming to and settling on Mars?

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

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

6. How would you describe the plot line for this first chapter of the novel?

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

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

9. How is the second expedition received on the planet of Mars?

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

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