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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. After what did the settlers name Spendor Hill?
2. Where does William show the family Martians?
3. What traps Tom?
4. By 2026 in this chapter, how long has it been since the Great War on Earth?
5. What does Hathaway see in the sky on his walk back from the graveyard?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the author's purpose in including such a small chapter simply about elderly people making the move to Mars?
2. How do the people on Earth send messages to the people on Mars and what message repeats constantly?
3. For what was the town called Red Town named?
4. Why do the owner of the luggage store and Father Peregrine believe that people will no longer be coming to Mars?
5. What do you think LaFarge hears in the backyard and why does he bolt the door and not explore the noise?
6. Why do Sam and his wife escape into the sand ship and what leads them to return to their hotdog stand?
7. What do the new inhabitants of Mars call the elderly people who have begun to come to Mars?
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 causes the destruction of the house and how does the house react?
10. Why does Hathaway believe he and his family are going to be rescued and how long as he been waiting to be rescued?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the idea of belief systems rearranged and changed throughout the novel? Use specific examples from the novel to show the changes as they occur throughout the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Many of the events within this novel are disturbing to the reader. Do you believe this was the intention of the author? Why or why not? Why would an author intentionally include disturbing events?
Essay Topic 3
How does the colonization of Mars change throughout the novel? Do you believe the changes represent a circle? In what way or why not?
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