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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the celebration attended by many of the first hundred colonizers, John tells _____ he thinks her/his children are saboteurs.
(a) Sax.
(b) Frank.
(c) Maya.
(d) Hiroko.

2. In what kind of environment is money necessary according to Arkady?
(a) Wall Street.
(b) Materialistic.
(c) Non-self sufficient.
(d) Earth.

3. Who is involved in negotiations about giving up land on Mars for money?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The Russians.
(d) The French.

4. What group is blocking communications while Nadia tries to repair water mains?
(a) UNOMA.
(b) ATARI.
(c) UNESCO.
(d) ETSA.

5. In what basin does Nadia see a sea of ice and water?
(a) Lee.
(b) Lucifer.
(c) Clark.
(d) Hellman.

6. What is the crater called that Ann and Simon get trapped in?
(a) Laker.
(b) Lost.
(c) Newman.
(d) Peridier.

7. Who appears on Arkady's screen and demands surrender?
(a) Sax.
(b) John.
(c) Frank.
(d) Phyllis.

8. Who is Ann relieved to see when the group is reunited with the missing colonists at the end of the book?
(a) Simon.
(b) James.
(c) Peter.
(d) Jan.

9. Who is the head of the missing colonists that Simon discovers at the end of the book?
(a) Ann.
(b) Arkady.
(c) Nadia.
(d) Hiroko.

10. Who blames herself/himself for the death of the person that rescues the rover that is run aground?
(a) Ann.
(b) Maya.
(c) Jason.
(d) Frank.

11. What is the new transnational mining site where John learns about an Arab colony?
(a) Bradbury Point.
(b) Armscor.
(c) Acheron.
(d) Fugati.

12. What promise does the hidden inside of the rock offer the traveling rover group?
(a) A new adventure.
(b) A new source of fuel.
(c) A new way of life.
(d) A new guide.

13. What is raging beside the rover that is run aground?
(a) Volcanoes.
(b) Tempers.
(c) Maya.
(d) A flood.

14. Who is angry with Frank for rejecting her affection?
(a) Hiroko.
(b) Nadia.
(c) Ursula.
(d) Maya.

15. Who are in the dining hall, watching the news as they hear of revolutions surrounding the new birth reduction acts on Earth?
(a) Arkady and Ursula.
(b) Frank and Maya.
(c) John and Nadia.
(d) Sax and Frank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town that contains the mohole?

2. Who runs the rover aground when she is distracted?

3. Who questions if Ann Clayborne or Arkady is responsible for the destruction of the moholes?

4. On the fourteenth day of the revolution, what asteroid is blown up?

5. Which tent workers strike, leading to negotiations by Frank and Phyllis?

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