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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 ethnicity is fleeing Earth for Mars in this chapter?
(a) Hispanic Americans
(b) Native Americans
(c) African Americans
(d) Asian Americans

2. Where do the boys hike?
(a) Crystal mountains
(b) Mountains of ashes from the burnt bodies
(c) White snow covered mountains
(d) Newest deserted Martian towns

3. What new category of people has begun to travel to Mars?
(a) Elderly
(b) Children
(c) Female
(d) Hispanic

4. Who does LaFarge and his wife find in their backyard one rainy night?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe
(b) A Martian couple
(c) Their dead son, Tom
(d) A government official

5. Which continent was obliterated according to the messages?
(a) Australia
(b) Europe
(c) North America
(d) Antarctica

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By 2026 in this chapter, how long has it been since the Great War on Earth?

3. What does Pikes substitute for Garrett after he is killed?

4. What destroys the central computer?

5. What do the parents of the boys do when the boys return home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you believe Father Peregrine purchases a new valise before he leaves the luggage store?

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

3. What happens to the boys when they return to their homes after playing the sick game with the dead Martians?

4. What two events surprise Wilder while he is at Hathaway's home after he has landed his rocket?

5. What does Teece see as a victory at the end of the chapter even though the blacks had gotten into the rockets and have left Earth?

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

7. How do the people on Earth send messages to the people on Mars and what message repeats constantly?

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

9. What is the author's purpose in including such a small chapter simply about elderly people making the move to Mars?

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

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