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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Maya find intriguing more than attractive?

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

3. What is the index of autonomic balance called?

4. Who does Nadia become friends with on the trip to the pole?

5. Who on Ares opposes following rules from Earth and advocates making their own rules?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Ares crew build a calendar?

2. How is Maya described in Part 2?

3. How does Michel evaluate people psychologically on Mars?

4. Why is Nadia uncomfortable talking to Maya and what makes her long to escape the group?

5. Where is John's body found, and why can't Frank revive him?

6. What do the Greens led by Sax believe?

7. Why does Maya get involved sexually with John?

8. Why do people like Michel fail to do well on Mars, according to his theory?

9. When did people learn about life on other planets, according to the first chapter?

10. How does Nadia recognize that their technology is advanced and causes changes to Mars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Red Mars is written primarily in the third-person point of view. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the first-person perspective?

Essay Topic 2

Red Mars is a classic science fiction novel. What does that classification entail? Why does this novel fit into this category?

Essay Topic 3

The government via corporations plays a pivotal role in maintaining the status quo and upholding certain expectations of etiquette and power dynamics. Who epitomizes this in Red Mars? Who questions this? How is rebellion expressed and how is it quashed?

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