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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 forces increase their attacks on John, revealing that those forces are simply and arm of the governments and transnational corporations attempting to maintain a hold on the planet?
(a) BRADBURY.
(b) UNOMA.
(c) ACHERON.
(d) ETSA.

2. Who are in the dining hall, watching the news as they hear of revolutions surrounding the new birth reduction acts on Earth?
(a) Frank and Maya.
(b) Arkady and Ursula.
(c) Sax and Frank.
(d) John and Nadia.

3. What do Ann and Simon send when they are trapped inside a crater?
(a) A distress signal.
(b) A flag.
(c) A note.
(d) A phone call.

4. What is the crater where Nadia's team finds hundreds of dead bodies, reduced to ash?
(a) Bradbury.
(b) Lost.
(c) Perider.
(d) Carr.

5. Who arrives and yanks Ann to her feet, angry at her attempt to commit suicide?
(a) John.
(b) Jezebel.
(c) Simon.
(d) Frank.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who realizes just how easy it is to sabotage Martian towns?

4. In what basin does Nadia see a sea of ice and water?

5. After a dust storm abates, where does John organize a celebration that coincides with Sax's burn up of the ice asteroid in the atmosphere?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frank respond after learning the treaty has failed?

2. What does John's role as a strong figure in the revolution give hope for?

3. How is the Coyote, terraforming, and sabotage linked to John?

4. How does Frank negotiate for the treaty on Mars, and how do Maya and others respond to his efforts?

5. Why is Ann depressed on Mars even when Michel offers the promise of survival?

6. Why do Frank and Maya argue and separate after he has a dream?

7. How does Phyllis's desire for money become apparent through her efforts on Mars?

8. What does Arkady's assertion that there are "guns under the table" foreshadow in the chapters after Part 5?

9. What is the significance of the stone eye teeth?

10. On the fourteenth day of the revolution, why does Arkady's arm go up in flames?

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