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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. Which of the following could best describe how the planet Mars has changed?
(a) It has become polluted
(b) It has become more and more uncontrollable
(c) It has become more and more ethnically divided
(d) It has become more Earth-like

2. Who made the prediction that Mars would become an altered planet by the new settlers?
(a) Stendahl
(b) Williams
(c) Teece
(d) Spendor

3. What does William Stendahl hope to recreate on Mars?
(a) Washington monument
(b) House of Usher
(c) White House
(d) Edgar Allen Poe's personal home

4. Where do Sam and his wife Elma open their shop?
(a) Beside the canal
(b) Near the luggage shop
(c) In line with the mineral deposits
(d) Beside where the rockets land

5. What was at the end of each Morse-code message?
(a) Come home
(b) Send weapons
(c) Stay away
(d) Help us

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sam Parkhill open on Mars that is the first of its kind?

2. What tragedy happened to LaFarge and his wife?

3. Why did the settlers who are now living on Mars decide to come to Mars?

4. What ethnicity is fleeing Earth for Mars in this chapter?

5. What traps Tom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stendahl reply when asked what he is planning to do with the house?

2. Describe the game the young Earth boys play that disturbs and disgusts the parents.

3. What does the family do to keep warm on its first night on Mars and what does it symbolize?

4. What happens to the boys when they return to their homes after playing the sick game with the dead Martians?

5. What do you think LaFarge hears in the backyard and why does he bolt the door and not explore the noise?

6. Why do you believe Father Peregrine purchases a new valise before he leaves the luggage store?

7. Why do the owner of the luggage store and Father Peregrine believe that people will no longer be coming to Mars?

8. What does Teece see as a victory at the end of the chapter even though the blacks had gotten into the rockets and have left Earth?

9. How is the role of mankind reversed in this chapter and what feelings are experienced by the people on Mars.

10. What is ironic about the way the real Garrett and the house itself are destroyed? What does Stendahl tell Garrett about his demise?

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