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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technology does the ship have to mimic life on Earth?
(a) Grow sensors.
(b) Fading lights.
(c) Built-in sensors.
(d) Emergency lights.

2. What is the index of autonomic balance called?
(a) Michel.
(b) Frank.
(c) Wagner.
(d) John.

3. Who is the leader of the Russian group of colonizers?
(a) John.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Frank.
(d) Maya.

4. Who does Nadia become friends with on the trip to the pole?
(a) Jan.
(b) Simon.
(c) James.
(d) Ann.

5. What bombards the crew, creating a storm and making the crew members bond?
(a) Solar flare.
(b) Fight.
(c) Jet stream.
(d) Hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose group on the farm does Michel join?

2. Who is the leader of the group that wishes to forgo terraforming?

3. Whose disappearance foreshadows problems for the farm group?

4. What threatens the flight pattern of the spaceship Nadia is on?

5. Who begins secretly sending taped messages to Washington, asking to stop the terraforming?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does terraforming create two opposing groups at Ares?

2. How is Maya described in Part 2?

3. How does the Ares crew build a calendar?

4. How does Nadia recognize that their technology is advanced and causes changes to Mars?

5. How does Michel evaluate people psychologically on Mars?

6. Why does Maya get involved sexually with John?

7. Why does Selim get angry after talking to Frank about John?

8. How does Frank fool Selim, and how does Selim respond when Frank speaks badly of John to him for a second time?

9. Why do people like Michel fail to do well on Mars, according to his theory?

10. What does Maya initially feel about John and Frank and their relationship?

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