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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 do the two men believe will happen to the hundred thousand people who are due to arrive on Mars in the next few weeks?

2. What does Teece tell Belter will happen to the rocket?

3. Who bans Stendahl from building the house on Earth?

4. What happens to the Martian who continually shifts into the form of deceased loved ones or enemies?

5. In which Poe story was the death the same as the manner in which the real Garrett died?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Hathaway believe he and his family are going to be rescued and how long as he been waiting to be rescued?

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

6. 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?

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

8. What do the new inhabitants of Mars call the elderly people who have begun to come to Mars?

9. What leads Elma, Sam's wife, to tell him that it might be another million years until Sam has a customer at his hotdog stand?

10. Why do Sam and his wife escape into the sand ship and what leads them to return to their hotdog stand?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the colonization of Mars change throughout the novel? Do you believe the changes represent a circle? In what way or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how the intrusion on Earth affects the lives of those inhabiting Mars. What comparisons on Earth can you make to this sub-plot? Support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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