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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 did Teece participate in many times at night?
(a) Store sales
(b) Helping blacks become freee
(c) Rocket building
(d) Lynchings

2. Which word below describes what the boys realize about their game?
(a) It is disgusting
(b) It will go on forever
(c) It would be shameful to their parents
(d) It is limited

3. After what did the settlers name Spendor Hill?
(a) Where Spendor was killed by his captain
(b) Where Spendor's crew landed
(c) Where Spendor killed his crew mates
(d) Where Spendor sat thinking about what to do

4. What animal were the robotic house cleaners designed after?
(a) Dogs
(b) Mouse
(c) Cats
(d) Birds

5. What destroys the central computer?
(a) Water
(b) Atomic war
(c) Martians
(d) Fire

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the fathers punish the boys when they return home?

2. Where do Sam and his wife Elma open their shop?

3. What is reported to have happened to a man named Nomland who lived near the canal?

4. What traps Tom?

5. What tragedy happened to LaFarge and his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the new inhabitants of Mars call the elderly people who have begun to come to Mars?

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

3. For what was the town called Red Town named?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. What does Stendahl reply when asked what he is planning to do with the house?

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

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

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