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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the group that supports terraforming?
(a) Balkans.
(b) Croatians.
(c) Greens.
(d) Reds.

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

4. Of the final hundred that would travel to Mars as the first colonizers, how many are women?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 30.
(d) 40.

5. Who attempts to portray Christ as a literary figure and is rebutted by Phyllis?
(a) Ursula.
(b) John.
(c) Frank.
(d) Maya.

6. Who gets angry about the attempt to block the Arabs during the writing of the new Mars treaty?
(a) Frank.
(b) Maya.
(c) Selim.
(d) John.

7. What bombards the crew, creating a storm and making the crew members bond?
(a) Fight.
(b) Hurricane.
(c) Solar flare.
(d) Jet stream.

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

9. Who is in awe of Hiroko as he/she works on the farm?
(a) Arkady.
(b) Maya.
(c) John.
(d) Ursula.

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

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

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

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

14. Who argues the beauty of Mars only exists in the mind?
(a) Ann.
(b) John.
(c) Sax.
(d) Maya.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the spiritual energy that the land is infused with called?

2. Who is attracted to the landscape religion and its society because it allows people to thrive and participate in it?

3. Who are against prospecting on Mars?

4. What did everyone do to join the team of Ares crew members?

5. Who is the psychiatrist sent to McMurdo Station in Antarctica with a hundred and fifty finalist scientists?

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