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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who questions if Ann Clayborne or Arkady is responsible for the destruction of the moholes?
(a) Frank.
(b) Maya.
(c) Sax.
(d) John.

2. What has UNOMA approved that makes Sax believe security should be increased?
(a) An ice bridge.
(b) A corporate haul.
(c) A mohole.
(d) A space elevator.

3. How do people get out of the rover and travel on the surface of Mars?
(a) Using walkers.
(b) Using streamers.
(c) Using volleys.
(d) Using strippers.

4. Who are in the dining hall, watching the news as they hear of revolutions surrounding the new birth reduction acts on Earth?
(a) Arkady and Ursula.
(b) Sax and Frank.
(c) Frank and Maya.
(d) John and Nadia.

5. Who is the head of the missing colonists that Simon discovers at the end of the book?
(a) Nadia.
(b) Hiroko.
(c) Arkady.
(d) Ann.

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

7. Who sleeps in John's rover, making Frank angry?
(a) Nadia.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Hiroko.
(d) Maya.

8. Who realizes just how easy it is to sabotage Martian towns?
(a) Nadia.
(b) John.
(c) Sax.
(d) Arkady.

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

10. Where does Frank arrive to talk to Phyllis to stop people from going to Mars?
(a) Nature's Edge.
(b) Clark.
(c) Goosepoint.
(d) Bradbury.

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

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

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

14. Whose followers discuss social progress as a fight against governmental intervention?
(a) Drake.
(b) Zeyk.
(c) Arkady.
(d) Susannah.

15. Who makes a closing speech about democracy versus capitalism at the celebration?
(a) Ursula.
(b) John.
(c) Frank.
(d) Maya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lost group visited the Arab colony that occupies a new transnational mining site?

2. Who is in a deep depression on Mars, fearing the death of colonists?

3. What is the crater called that Ann and Simon get trapped in?

4. Who is beside herself/himself in grief at the death of a lover in the final chapter?

5. Whose remains does Nadia find in the crater full of dead bodies?

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