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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 do the Martians read?
(a) Moving fingers over raised letters
(b) Through telepathy
(c) By listening to songs
(d) Out loud

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

3. What type of background do most of the Americans come from who colonize Mars?
(a) Cultured
(b) Deprived
(c) Working class
(d) Poverty

4. Who made up the first waves of settlers to Mars?
(a) Singles only
(b) Women
(c) Men
(d) Married couples

5. What does Pritchard want to do?
(a) Go in the rocket
(b) Hold a violent protest against space travel
(c) Watch the rocket take off
(d) Stop the rocekt from launching

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ylla sleep upon?

2. What does Gomez think the night smells like, but isn't sure that it really has a smell?

3. Where is the ship to land according to Ylla?

4. Who leads the second Mars expedition?

5. How is Pritchard hauled away from the rocket?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was unexpected about the second wave of men and what event on Earth causes the wave to have this unexpected outcome?

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

3. What is the theme of this chapter?

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

5. What happens to the climate as the rocket launches?

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

7. How do the first settlers feel about their time on Mars and what happens to change this feeling?

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

9. Describe the cities built on Mars.

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

(see the answer keys)

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