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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. What does Muhe try to explain to Gomez?

2. Why does Ylla agree to stay home?

3. Who was the leader of the third expedition?

4. In what month and year is the colonization of Mars nearly complete?

5. Which of the following is the reader led to assume in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author convey the sense of importance at the rocket launch?

2. What does the character of Pritchard represent in American society?

3. What is the theme of this chapter and what does this chapter show between the Earth races and the Martians?

4. What is the reader left to infer that the author is referencing by using the term 'green star'?

5. How does Mr. Xxx feel about his own belief system and what choices would he make because of it?

6. How would you describe the plot line for this first chapter of the novel?

7. How does this chapter show that Spendor's assumptions about the Earthlings ruining Mars was coming true?

8. Why is Ylla K unhappy in her marriage?

9. What does Pritchard's arrest represent as well as his reaction to the arrest?

10. Why do the inhabitants refer to this time as "Rocket Summer"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the main plot line of the novel. What chapters are critical to providing key information to the overall plot line? Why do you believe these are the case?

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of disbelief developed throughout the novel? What key events throughout the novel support this theme? Why was there so much disbelief?

Essay Topic 3

What is the purpose of the chapter called Usher II which is directly related to Edgar Allen Poe? Is it important that it be included? Why or why not?

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