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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 news just reached Mars about Earth in this chapter?
(a) Earth has been destroyed
(b) Mars is to be destroyed by those left on Earth
(c) More people are relocating to Mars
(d) Earth is going to war

2. What kind of pain does Hathaway suffer from during this chapter?
(a) Chest
(b) Arm
(c) Head
(d) Leg

3. What does Teece tell Belter will happen to the rocket?
(a) He will shoot the rocket destroying it
(b) Explode on launch
(c) It will land on a different planet from Mars
(d) It will not ever take off as it does not have fuel

4. What tragedy happened to LaFarge and his wife?
(a) Son was killed on Earth
(b) Parents were killed on Mars
(c) They lost everything in a rocket explosion on the way to Mars
(d) Government took all of their posessions

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What destroys the central computer?

2. What do the two men believe will happen to the hundred thousand people who are due to arrive on Mars in the next few weeks?

3. How long have many of the settlers lived on Mars at this time?

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

5. Who did the Pioneers bring next to Mars?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why do Sam and his wife escape into the sand ship and what leads them to return to their hotdog stand?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Describe how Genevieve appears to Gripp the first time he sees her and how does this compare to his imagination?

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