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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Nadia and Maya feel competent driving the group over ____.
(a) Ice.
(b) Craters.
(c) Moholes.
(d) Ash.

4. Who is overwhelmed with grief upon hearing of the death of John Boone?
(a) Arkady.
(b) Maya.
(c) Nadia.
(d) Frank.

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

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

7. Who asserts there are "guns under the table," indicating hidden interests?
(a) Frank.
(b) Arkady.
(c) John.
(d) Maya.

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

9. After the celebration attended by many of the first hundred colonizers, John tells _____ he thinks her/his children are saboteurs.
(a) Maya.
(b) Hiroko.
(c) Frank.
(d) Sax.

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

11. After John meets the Coyote, what strikes the atmosphere of Mars and burns brilliantly?
(a) A bell flare.
(b) An asteroid.
(c) A lightning storm.
(d) A dust storm.

12. Which tent workers strike, leading to negotiations by Frank and Phyllis?
(a) German.
(b) Russian.
(c) American.
(d) Indian.

13. Who is Ann relieved to see when the group is reunited with the missing colonists at the end of the book?
(a) Simon.
(b) Peter.
(c) James.
(d) Jan.

14. When John asks AI to scan his room, what does he discover on his bed?
(a) A mole.
(b) A costume.
(c) A skunk.
(d) A dead body.

15. Who runs the rover aground when she is distracted?
(a) Ursula.
(b) Ann.
(c) Maya.
(d) Nadia.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to maintain control over Earth, what two countries have to maintain control over Mars?

2. Where does Frank arrive to talk to Phyllis to stop people from going to Mars?

3. Who appears on Arkady's screen and demands surrender?

4. Where does John go to receive a physical exam?

5. Who takes a glider to see Ann in Argye Basin to investigate the destruction of the moholes?

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