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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 William say was the downfall of Earth?

2. What has killed most of the Martians?

3. What was at the end of each Morse-code message?

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

5. What tragedy happened to LaFarge and his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Walter Gripp suddenly try calling the largest beauty salon on Mars?

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

3. 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?

4. For what was the town called Red Town named?

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

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

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

8. Why does Teece want the townsfolk to call the governor when he sees the black men and women heading toward the rockets?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In what way is the theme of the rearrangement of belief systems developed throughout the novel? When and why have you had to rearrange your own personal belief system?

Essay Topic 3

How is the theme of racism described in this novel? Do you believe the author is providing a realistic picture of racism by his descriptions within the chapter? Why or why not?

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