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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. Who reminds Nadia that terraforming will destroy the pole?
(a) Simon.
(b) Ann.
(c) Phyllis.
(d) Jan.

2. Who is the man with dreadlocks watching Frank?
(a) Sax.
(b) Coyote.
(c) Frank.
(d) Selim.

3. Why is the Ares group time limited outside on the surface of Mars?
(a) Heat.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Cold.
(d) Digging.

4. Who develops genetically engineered microorganisms, or GEMS, that can survive on the planet?
(a) Writers.
(b) Technicians.
(c) Astronauts.
(d) Bioengineers.

5. Who argues the team should go to the polar cap to take samples?
(a) Ann.
(b) Simon.
(c) Phyllis.
(d) Nadia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a suicide gene?

2. What is the group that supports terraforming?

3. What has John been lacking for hours that prevents doctors from reviving his body outside the dome?

4. How many of the final hundred that would travel to Mars as the first colonizers are Russian?

5. Who has to take a drill simulation job?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Maya talks to Michel about her love life problems, how does he respond?

3. When Michel is disturbed by a dark skinned man, what ends up happening to him that leaves him naked?

4. What does Anna admit to Nadia about living in duality?

5. How does Nadia lose her finger?

6. How is Nadia described in Part 3 as a problem solver?

7. What do the Greens led by Sax believe?

8. What are the major themes of Red Mars by Robinson?

9. How is Maya described in Part 2?

10. How are the first hundred colonists selected to go to Mars?

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