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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. According to the landscape religion, how can people live on Mars?
(a) Fighting against the planet.
(b) In harmony with the planet.
(c) Destroying the planet.
(d) Neutralizing the planet.

2. What is a suicide gene?
(a) CEF.
(b) GEM.
(c) BRT.
(d) UNO.

3. Who on Phobos does Nadia talk to about the issues on the Mars colony?
(a) Maya.
(b) Frank.
(c) John.
(d) Arkady.

4. Along the way to the pole, what does the Ares crew install?
(a) Radiation surveys.
(b) Permafrost water collectors.
(c) Polar ice caps.
(d) Robot freight rovers.

5. In terms of ecological economics, what does the landscape religion promote about an individual in the society?
(a) Fight the environment.
(b) Rebuild the environment.
(c) Give as much as he/she takes.
(d) Live in opposition to it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is homesick and awakened by calls from Phyllis about Maya?

2. Who are the newcomers from Earth?

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

4. Who believe that there may be undiscovered life deep in the permafrost or underground?

5. Whose group on the farm does Michel join?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Greens led by Sax believe?

2. How is Maya described in Part 2?

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

4. How does Michel evaluate people psychologically on Mars?

5. Why are GEMS made by the scientists?

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

7. How does Nadia lose her finger?

8. Why does Nadia get furious when she sees the broken heating element?

9. What is areophany and how is it in tune with nature?

10. How is population size controlled within the GEM and how does it adapt to plant life?

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