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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 animal kills Garrett as he comes to investigate the House of Usher?
(a) Snake
(b) Ape
(c) Lion
(d) Couger
2. What term does the author use to describe the elderly?
(a) Useless people
(b) Seasoned people
(c) Unwanted people
(d) Mummy people
3. What does Hathaway see in the sky on his walk back from the graveyard?
(a) Earth explode and parts shoot across the sky
(b) Stars shooting across the store
(c) Red flame from a rocket in the sky
(d) Invaders from another planet
4. What animal were the robotic house cleaners designed after?
(a) Birds
(b) Cats
(c) Mouse
(d) Dogs
5. How does the Thomas family arrive on Mars?
(a) Martian car
(b) Military vehicle
(c) Family rocket
(d) Government vehicle
Short Answer Questions
1. What destroyed many of the buildings and people in Allendale, California?
2. What has killed most of the Martians?
3. Which of the following major cities was reported to have been invaded by the Morse-code messages?
4. What does William say was the downfall of Earth?
5. Who bans Stendahl from building the house on Earth?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the game the young Earth boys play that disturbs and disgusts the parents.
2. How do the people on Earth send messages to the people on Mars and what message repeats constantly?
3. For what was the town called Red Town named?
4. How does Timothy recognize that his family is not really on a vacation?
5. What does Stendahl reply when asked what he is planning to do with the house?
6. What do the new inhabitants of Mars call the elderly people who have begun to come to Mars?
7. What does the family do to keep warm on its first night on Mars and what does it symbolize?
8. Why do Sam and his wife escape into the sand ship and what leads them to return to their hotdog stand?
9. Why do the owner of the luggage store and Father Peregrine believe that people will no longer be coming to Mars?
10. What is ironic about the way the real Garrett and the house itself are destroyed? What does Stendahl tell Garrett about his demise?
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