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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 do the parents of the boys do when the boys return home?
(a) Make them take a bath
(b) Make them pray
(c) Make them show them how to play the game
(d) Make them tell the firemen what they did

2. Which of the following characters believes he is the last human being left on Mars?
(a) Walter Gripp
(b) Sam Parkhill
(c) Father Peregrine
(d) Genevieve Selsor

3. What destroyed many of the buildings and people in Allendale, California?
(a) Earthquakes
(b) Fire
(c) Atomic war
(d) Martians

4. What news just reached Mars about Earth in this chapter?
(a) Earth has been destroyed
(b) Mars is to be destroyed by those left on Earth
(c) More people are relocating to Mars
(d) Earth is going to war

5. What new portion of civilization does the author indicate has begun to settle on Mars?
(a) Middle class
(b) Sophisticates
(c) Ethnicities
(d) Non-American settlers

Short Answer Questions

1. How long have many of the settlers lived on Mars at this time?

2. Where do the boys hike?

3. Where does William show the family Martians?

4. After what do the settlers on Mars rename the Martian landscape?

5. What animal kills Garrett as he comes to investigate the House of Usher?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the role of mankind reversed in this chapter and what feelings are experienced by the people on Mars.

2. What is ironic about the way the real Garrett and the house itself are destroyed? What does Stendahl tell Garrett about his demise?

3. Why does Teece want the townsfolk to call the governor when he sees the black men and women heading toward the rockets?

4. What does the family do to keep warm on its first night on Mars and what does it symbolize?

5. Why does LaFarge continually question Tom about his presence and what happens when he does?

6. What causes the destruction of the house and how does the house react?

7. How does Timothy recognize that his family is not really on a vacation?

8. Describe the game the young Earth boys play that disturbs and disgusts the parents.

9. What leads Elma, Sam's wife, to tell him that it might be another million years until Sam has a customer at his hotdog stand?

10. Why does Walter Gripp suddenly try calling the largest beauty salon on Mars?

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