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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) Native Americans
(b) Asian Americans
(c) African Americans
(d) Hispanic Americans

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

3. Which of the following characters believes he is the last human being left on Mars?
(a) Walter Gripp
(b) Genevieve Selsor
(c) Sam Parkhill
(d) Father Peregrine

4. What does William Stendahl hope to recreate on Mars?
(a) White House
(b) Washington monument
(c) House of Usher
(d) Edgar Allen Poe's personal home

5. Why did Selsor stay behind on Mars?
(a) To hide from the war
(b) To eat whatever she wants
(c) To be able to take care of her busness
(d) To avoid jail on Earth

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Martians present Sam with which makes Sam delirious with delight?

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

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

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

5. What tax was abolished?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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