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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Arkady is walking to his office, he sees a hole appear in the tent above. What body part does he suddenly see ablaze?
(a) His arm.
(b) His torso.
(c) His leg.
(d) His head.

2. Cairo is overrun with _____ when Nadia and her team arrive after visiting the crater.
(a) Moss.
(b) Fear.
(c) Refugees.
(d) Lichen.

3. After a dust storm abates, where does John organize a celebration that coincides with Sax's burn up of the ice asteroid in the atmosphere?
(a) Olympus Mons.
(b) Bradbury.
(c) Acheron.
(d) Lincoln.

4. Which investigators really work for transnationals?
(a) UNICEF.
(b) UNOMA.
(c) ACHERON.
(d) ETSA.

5. Who suits up to clear the area after the rover is run aground?
(a) Frank.
(b) Ann.
(c) Maya.
(d) Nadia.

6. Where does Frank travel to find that Arkady is leading part of the revolution at Carr Crater?
(a) Nicosa.
(b) Bradbury.
(c) Death Star.
(d) Acheron.

7. Who is beside herself/himself in grief at the death of a lover in the final chapter?
(a) Maya.
(b) Ann.
(c) Simon.
(d) Peter.

8. What is raging beside the rover that is run aground?
(a) A flood.
(b) Tempers.
(c) Maya.
(d) Volcanoes.

9. In Part 5, who is disillusioned and beginning to realize that his government used false pretenses to get the first hundred to Mars?
(a) Ursula.
(b) Frank.
(c) John.
(d) Maya.

10. Who has a dream of John and then fights with Maya?
(a) Nadia.
(b) Arkady.
(c) Frank.
(d) Sax.

11. What lost group visited the Arab colony that occupies a new transnational mining site?
(a) Frank's.
(b) Jan's.
(c) Hiroko's.
(d) Ursula's.

12. Who takes a glider to see Ann in Argye Basin to investigate the destruction of the moholes?
(a) Sax.
(b) Frank.
(c) John.
(d) Maya.

13. What process was used to create John's son using his sperm?
(a) Sterile.
(b) Labile.
(c) Cohesive.
(d) In vitro.

14. Who appears on Arkady's screen and demands surrender?
(a) Frank.
(b) John.
(c) Sax.
(d) Phyllis.

15. If aging treatments are given to the rich, who will revolt?
(a) The middle class.
(b) The poor.
(c) The politicians.
(d) The rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the surviving group of colonists take shelter days after Ann's suicide attempt?

2. If aging treatments are given to everyone, what happens to the world?

3. Whose followers discuss social progress as a fight against governmental intervention?

4. What is destroyed that causes Ann to panic, fearing for the life of her son?

5. Who is John's son?

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