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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What has been placed into each windmill that forces the terraforming of Mars?
(a) The blue moss.
(b) The polar cap.
(c) The broken light.
(d) The heating element.

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

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

7. Who returns from Phobos that Nadia enjoys a connection with in Part 3?
(a) Simon.
(b) Ann.
(c) Arkady.
(d) Phyllis.

8. Who wants prospecting on Mars?
(a) Ann.
(b) Phyllis.
(c) Nadia.
(d) Simon.

9. Who stays with the mining site after much arguing and communication with the two governments involved in the Mars project?
(a) Phyllis.
(b) Simon.
(c) Ann.
(d) Nadia.

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

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

12. How many rooms does the space ship carrying the colonizers have?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 300.
(d) 500.

13. What is falling apart and has damaged the surface of Mars according to Nadia?
(a) Underhill.
(b) Phone coverage.
(c) Friendships.
(d) Polar caps.

14. Who plans to fertilize her eggs using sperm from all the men on the Ares?
(a) Maya.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Hiroko.
(d) Arkady.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who notes it is ridiculous to stop terraforming for low probability life that may not even be affected by it?

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

3. Frank seeks out ______ to talk with but gets interrupted by sounds of violence.

4. Who reminds Nadia that terraforming will destroy the pole?

5. Who argues the team should go to the polar cap to take samples?

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