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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. Why did the settlers who are now living on Mars decide to come to Mars?
(a) Escape criminal charges
(b) Right to freedom
(c) Leave behind bigotry
(d) Travel and tourism

2. What was at the end of each Morse-code message?
(a) Send weapons
(b) Stay away
(c) Come home
(d) Help us

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

4. What happens at 9:00?
(a) Settlers gather and destroy all Martians
(b) Earth begins to burn
(c) The Earth explodes
(d) Mars catches on fire

5. What kind of storms have taken over Mars?
(a) Snow
(b) Dust
(c) Meteor
(d) Rain

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Father Peregrine describe the fighting during the war in China when he was a boy?

3. Who made the prediction that Mars would become an altered planet by the new settlers?

4. With what does Sam threaten the Martian?

5. What has Mars become with the arrival of the elderly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the destruction of the house and how does the house react?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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