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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 characters offers to take Silly's place as a worker?
(a) Teece
(b) Belter
(c) Grandpa Quartermain
(d) Silly

2. What happens to the McClellans' house at the end of the chapter?
(a) Continues on
(b) Explodes
(c) Simply falls apart
(d) Melts

3. How long does Gripp drive to get away from Selsor?
(a) Four days and nights
(b) Five days and nights
(c) Three days and nights
(d) Six days and nights

4. Where does William show the family Martians?
(a) In the historical buildings
(b) In the mountains
(c) Reflection in the canal
(d) In the graveyards

5. What are Hathaway's other family members?
(a) Martians
(b) Other Earth people who had gone insane
(c) Robots
(d) Illusions

Short Answer Questions

1. What has killed most of the Martians?

2. Why did Selsor stay behind on Mars?

3. What did Silly say that Teece remarked was a triumph for Teece himself?

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

5. Why did the Thomas family tell people they were going to Mars?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's purpose in including such a small chapter simply about elderly people making the move to Mars?

2. What causes the destruction of the house and how does the house react?

3. Why does Walter Gripp suddenly try calling the largest beauty salon on Mars?

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

5. How do the people on Earth send messages to the people on Mars and what message repeats constantly?

6. Why does LaFarge continually question Tom about his presence and what happens when he does?

7. What two events surprise Wilder while he is at Hathaway's home after he has landed his rocket?

8. What comes to Mars that many of the Earth people particularly left Earth to escape?

9. How does the author let the reader know that the family that once lived in the autonomously run house has been killed in the atomic blast?

10. How does Timothy recognize that his family is not really on a vacation?

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