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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hathaway do to celebrate what he believes is his eminent rescue?

2. What animal were the robotic house cleaners designed after?

3. After what do the settlers on Mars rename the Martian landscape?

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

5. Who did the sophisticates bring next to Mars?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the Martians such as Mrs. Ttt and Mr. Aaa represent in American society? Why do you believe this is this case? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Which chapters do you believe provided pivotal points which were necessary to the plot development of the book? In what ways were they pivotal? Include specific examples and supporting details.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the main plot line of the novel. What chapters are critical to providing key information to the overall plot line? Why do you believe these are the case?

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