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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. When stock prices begin to fall, what does the elevator consortium slow down?
(a) Exploration.
(b) Terraforming.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Immigration.

2. What is raging beside the rover that is run aground?
(a) Maya.
(b) Volcanoes.
(c) A flood.
(d) Tempers.

3. What is the new transnational mining site where John learns about an Arab colony?
(a) Bradbury Point.
(b) Armscor.
(c) Fugati.
(d) Acheron.

4. What is Sax's headquarters called?
(a) Echus Overlook.
(b) Acheron.
(c) Etsu Okakura.
(d) Senzeni Nather.

5. Who spends several months with an Arab caravan, mining, and spending time alone?
(a) Nadia.
(b) Arkady.
(c) John.
(d) Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cairo is overrun with _____ when Nadia and her team arrive after visiting the crater.

2. Who is Ann's son?

3. Who takes a glider to see Ann in Argye Basin to investigate the destruction of the moholes?

4. Where does Frank arrive to talk to Phyllis to stop people from going to Mars?

5. Who questions if Ann Clayborne or Arkady is responsible for the destruction of the moholes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ann try commit suicide?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What are Helmut's motivations for working on Mars?

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

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