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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. Which word below describes what the boys realize about their game?
2. What are Hathaway's other family members?
3. What animal kills Garrett as he comes to investigate the House of Usher?
4. How did Father Peregrine describe the fighting during the war in China when he was a boy?
5. In which Poe story was the death the same as the manner in which the real Garrett died?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Stendahl reply when asked what he is planning to do with the house?
2. What do the new inhabitants of Mars call the elderly people who have begun to come to Mars?
3. What causes the destruction of the house and how does the house react?
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 LaFarge continually question Tom about his presence and what happens when he does?
6. What two events surprise Wilder while he is at Hathaway's home after he has landed his rocket?
7. How does Timothy recognize that his family is not really on a vacation?
8. What happens to the boys when they return to their homes after playing the sick game with the dead Martians?
9. What does the family do to keep warm on its first night on Mars and what does it symbolize?
10. What is the author's purpose in including such a small chapter simply about elderly people making the move to Mars?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is governmental control and and overpowering nature described throughout the novel? Do you believe the government is still overpowering? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
How does the colonization of Mars change throughout the novel? Do you believe the changes represent a circle? In what way or why not?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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