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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. Where do Sam and his wife Elma open their shop?
(a) Near the luggage shop
(b) In line with the mineral deposits
(c) Beside where the rockets land
(d) Beside the canal

2. In which Poe story was the death the same as the manner in which the real Garrett died?
(a) The Fall of the House of Usher
(b) The Murder in the Rue Morgue
(c) The Raven
(d) The Cask of Amontillado

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

4. Why did the settlers who are now living on Mars decide to come to Mars?
(a) Leave behind bigotry
(b) Travel and tourism
(c) Escape criminal charges
(d) Right to freedom

5. What tax was abolished?
(a) Automobile
(b) Sales
(c) Property
(d) Poll

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teece tell Belter will happen to the rocket?

2. After what did the settlers name Spendor Hill?

3. Which of the following is the correct order of people that colonized Mars?

4. What does William tell his family was taking over the Earth way of life?

5. What new category of people has begun to travel to Mars?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Hathaway believe he and his family are going to be rescued and how long as he been waiting to be rescued?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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