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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 tax was abolished?

2. What does William say was the downfall of Earth?

3. Where do Sam and his wife Elma open their shop?

4. What does the family burn to keep warm at night?

5. Where do the boys hike?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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 3

Many of the people that came to inhabit Mars never truly felt it was their home. Why is this the case? How does the author show this throughout the novel? Provide specific examples from the novel.

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