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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. Who does Sam demand leave his shop?
(a) A Martian
(b) All workers from China and Mexico
(c) Lavina and Tom
(d) Father Peregrine

2. Who did the sophisticates bring next to Mars?
(a) Elderly
(b) Pioneers
(c) Workers
(d) Government

3. Where does William show the family Martians?
(a) In the historical buildings
(b) Reflection in the canal
(c) In the mountains
(d) In the graveyards

4. What do the students make while playing their game?
(a) Photos
(b) Fire
(c) Ashes
(d) Music

5. What are Hathaway's other family members?
(a) Robots
(b) Martians
(c) Other Earth people who had gone insane
(d) Illusions

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away does Gripp eventually drive away from Marlin Village?

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

3. What tragedy happened to LaFarge and his wife?

4. What traps Tom?

5. Who does LaFarge and his wife find in their backyard one rainy night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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