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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what basin does Nadia see a sea of ice and water?
(a) Lucifer.
(b) Hellman.
(c) Lee.
(d) Clark.

3. Who informs Frank that his corporation is opening an office in Ethiopia?
(a) An associate.
(b) A toothsayer.
(c) A priest.
(d) A lawyer.

4. What rains down upon Frank and his group that is sent by forces orbiting Phobos?
(a) Food.
(b) Explosives.
(c) Balloons.
(d) Fire.

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

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

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

8. What do Maya and the rest of the traveling rover group discover is hidden inside a rock?
(a) An icon.
(b) A jewel.
(c) A message.
(d) A settlement.

9. Who spends several months with an Arab caravan, mining, and spending time alone?
(a) Nadia.
(b) Frank.
(c) Arkady.
(d) John.

10. Who escapes on an elevator when the cable is destroyed?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Jason.
(c) Peter.
(d) Phyllis.

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

12. Who is on his way to Cairo to meet Frank and Maya when his rover breaks down?
(a) Sax.
(b) Arkady.
(c) Frank.
(d) John.

13. Who is the friend of Hiroko that hates terraforming?
(a) The Rover.
(b) The Writer.
(c) The Preacher.
(d) The Coyote.

14. What does Ann turn off in her suit, awaiting death?
(a) Heat.
(b) Depression.
(c) Visors.
(d) Grips.

15. Who is involved in negotiations about giving up land on Mars for money?
(a) The Indians.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Russians.
(d) The French.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what kind of world does Arkady insist that money is not the primary goal?

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

3. Who takes a train to see Helmut Bronsi?

4. When stock prices begin to fall, what does the elevator consortium slow down?

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

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