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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the spiritual energy that the land is infused with called?
(a) Enig.
(b) Aeros.
(c) Kami.
(d) Viriditas.

2. Who argues the team should go to the polar cap to take samples?
(a) Ann.
(b) Nadia.
(c) Simon.
(d) Phyllis.

3. What does Nadia become well known for as she works on Mars?
(a) A builder.
(b) A fighter.
(c) A grant writer.
(d) A problem solver.

4. What has John been lacking for hours that prevents doctors from reviving his body outside the dome?
(a) Food.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Love.
(d) Energy.

5. Who does Maya walk in the bioforest with?
(a) Jan.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Frank.
(d) John.

6. In what love triangle does Nadia find herself struggling to escape?
(a) John, Maya, and Nadia.
(b) John, Maya, and Frank.
(c) Frank, John, and Nadia.
(d) Frank, Ursula, and Sax.

7. How many of the final hundred that would travel to Mars as the first colonizers are American?
(a) 65.
(b) 35.
(c) 55.
(d) 45.

8. According to the landscape religion, how can people live on Mars?
(a) Neutralizing the planet.
(b) Fighting against the planet.
(c) In harmony with the planet.
(d) Destroying the planet.

9. Who develops a new calendar to track the 668 day Martian year?
(a) Nadia.
(b) The crew.
(c) John.
(d) The astronauts.

10. Who is given a mask during the celebration in town after the speech?
(a) Frank.
(b) Maya.
(c) John.
(d) Selim.

11. Who is the leader of the Russian group of colonizers?
(a) John.
(b) Frank.
(c) Ursula.
(d) Maya.

12. Whose disappearance foreshadows problems for the farm group?
(a) Frank's.
(b) Michel's.
(c) Jan's.
(d) Hiroko's.

13. Who angrily sets off, disturbed by suggestions to take action against John for his treaty beliefs?
(a) Frank.
(b) Maya.
(c) Selim.
(d) Sax.

14. Who discovers John's body outside the dome?
(a) Frank and Maya.
(b) Ursula and Sax.
(c) Selim and Ursula.
(d) Maya and Jan.

15. Frank seeks out ______ to talk with but gets interrupted by sounds of violence.
(a) John.
(b) Selim.
(c) Sax.
(d) Maya.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stays with the mining site after much arguing and communication with the two governments involved in the Mars project?

2. Who are both Frank and John attracted to?

3. Who is homesick and awakened by calls from Phyllis about Maya?

4. Who develops genetically engineered microorganisms, or GEMS, that can survive on the planet?

5. What bombards the crew, creating a storm and making the crew members bond?

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