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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 happens at 9:00?
(a) The Earth explodes
(b) Mars catches on fire
(c) Settlers gather and destroy all Martians
(d) Earth begins to burn

2. What does the word autonomously mean as it is used in the following sentence: The house is designed to function autonomously.
(a) Without the use of machines
(b) It is run by timers
(c) With the use of the robots
(d) Without human intervention

3. What kind of storms have taken over Mars?
(a) Snow
(b) Dust
(c) Rain
(d) Meteor

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

5. What does Hathaway see in the sky on his walk back from the graveyard?
(a) Red flame from a rocket in the sky
(b) Stars shooting across the store
(c) Earth explode and parts shoot across the sky
(d) Invaders from another planet

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the students make while playing their game?

3. What destroyed many of the buildings and people in Allendale, California?

4. What term does the author use to describe the elderly?

5. What tragedy happened to LaFarge and his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comes to Mars that many of the Earth people particularly left Earth to escape?

2. Why do Sam and his wife escape into the sand ship and what leads them to return to their hotdog stand?

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

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

5. How does the author let the reader know that the family that once lived in the autonomously run house has been killed in the atomic blast?

6. Why do the owner of the luggage store and Father Peregrine believe that people will no longer be coming to Mars?

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

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 do you think LaFarge hears in the backyard and why does he bolt the door and not explore the noise?

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

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