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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. How do people get out of the rover and travel on the surface of Mars?
(a) Using streamers.
(b) Using walkers.
(c) Using volleys.
(d) Using strippers.

2. What group is blocking communications while Nadia tries to repair water mains?
(a) ATARI.
(b) UNESCO.
(c) ETSA.
(d) UNOMA.

3. What is Ann's son waiting for to take him away to safety from the cracked dome?
(a) A landing pad.
(b) A space convoy.
(c) A truck.
(d) An elevator.

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

5. What is the transnational corporation that has received a prospecting contract?
(a) Fugati.
(b) Acheron.
(c) Unoma.
(d) Armscor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is overwhelmed with grief upon hearing of the death of John Boone?

2. What do Ann and Simon send when they are trapped inside a crater?

3. In what kind of environment is money necessary according to Arkady?

4. Whose remains does Nadia find in the crater full of dead bodies?

5. Who makes John a strong figure in the revolution?

Short Essay Questions

1. When riots begin in Mars, what does Frank discover as the city is in revolution?

2. Why does John have conflicting feelings about terraforming and transnationals?

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

4. What does Frank learn from meeting the miners from Florida?

5. Why does Ann crumble in mental stability as the destruction of Mars occurs?

6. How does Peter Clayborne escape death?

7. How are the shifting political agendas on Earth reflected in the mining efforts on Mars and how does this affect John?

8. Why are the primary hundred going to be executed?

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

10. What information is revealed about Hiroko through the notes left for Sax and for Ursula?

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