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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 does Sam Parkhill open on Mars that is the first of its kind?
(a) Travel agency
(b) Convience market
(c) Hot dog stand
(d) Luggage store

2. Where does Walter Gripp live?
(a) Earth
(b) Canal
(c) Town
(d) Mountains

3. Which continent was obliterated according to the messages?
(a) Europe
(b) Antarctica
(c) North America
(d) Australia

4. How long have many of the settlers lived on Mars at this time?
(a) 20-30 years
(b) 3-4 years
(c) 5-10 years
(d) 1-2 years

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What color does the face of the Martian seem to be?

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

3. What did Teece participate in many times at night?

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

5. Where does William show the family Martians?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. What is the author's purpose in including such a small chapter simply about elderly people making the move to Mars?

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