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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the landscape religion promote in terms of maintaining the surface of Mars?
(a) To blow it up.
(b) To phase it out.
(c) To preserve it.
(d) To change it.

2. Who is the man with dreadlocks watching Frank?
(a) Sax.
(b) Frank.
(c) Selim.
(d) Coyote.

3. In terms of ecological economics, what does the landscape religion promote about an individual in the society?
(a) Fight the environment.
(b) Give as much as he/she takes.
(c) Rebuild the environment.
(d) Live in opposition to it.

4. Along the way to the pole, what does the Ares crew install?
(a) Permafrost water collectors.
(b) Radiation surveys.
(c) Polar ice caps.
(d) Robot freight rovers.

5. What is the index of autonomic balance called?
(a) Frank.
(b) Michel.
(c) John.
(d) Wagner.

6. Why is the Ares group time limited outside on the surface of Mars?
(a) Radiation.
(b) Cold.
(c) Digging.
(d) Heat.

7. Who develops genetically engineered microorganisms, or GEMS, that can survive on the planet?
(a) Bioengineers.
(b) Astronauts.
(c) Technicians.
(d) Writers.

8. What did everyone do to join the team of Ares crew members?
(a) Fight.
(b) Lie.
(c) Glow.
(d) Work.

9. What is the name of the space ship carrying the colonizers?
(a) Ares.
(b) Justine.
(c) Xforce.
(d) Chalmers.

10. According to the psychiatrist program, what is Nadia?
(a) Harmonious.
(b) Stable.
(c) Fearsome.
(d) Labile.

11. When a windmill crashes, who goes out to check on it?
(a) Frank.
(b) Nadia.
(c) Arkady.
(d) John.

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

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

14. Where does Nadia suggest picking up a signal from to find a way to navigate?
(a) Windmills.
(b) Heaters.
(c) Asteroids.
(d) Transponders.

15. Who is Michel amazed to see among the farm team members?
(a) Children.
(b) Goats.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Old women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believe that there may be undiscovered life deep in the permafrost or underground?

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

3. Who has approved the dispatch of GEMs?

4. Who talks Arkady into waiting for the UN to decide on whether to terraform?

5. Who attempts to portray Christ as a literary figure and is rebutted by Phyllis?

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