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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. Who reminds Nadia that terraforming will destroy the pole?
(a) Simon.
(b) Jan.
(c) Phyllis.
(d) Ann.

2. Who does Nadia talk to about love issues?
(a) Arkady.
(b) Frank.
(c) John.
(d) Maya.

3. Who does Nadia become friends with on the trip to the pole?
(a) Simon.
(b) Jan.
(c) Ann.
(d) James.

4. In what love triangle does Nadia find herself struggling to escape?
(a) John, Maya, and Nadia.
(b) Frank, Ursula, and Sax.
(c) Frank, John, and Nadia.
(d) John, Maya, and Frank.

5. Who is attracted to the landscape religion and its society because it allows people to thrive and participate in it?
(a) Robinson.
(b) Frank.
(c) Hiroko.
(d) Michel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the landscape religion promote in terms of maintaining the surface of Mars?

2. According to the psychiatrist program, what is Maya?

3. Who develops a new calendar to track the 668 day Martian year?

4. Why is the Ares group time limited outside on the surface of Mars?

5. Whose disappearance foreshadows problems for the farm group?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does terraforming create two opposing groups at Ares?

2. How does Michel evaluate people psychologically on Mars?

3. Why does Selim get angry after talking to Frank about John?

4. What does Maya initially feel about John and Frank and their relationship?

5. What is areophany and how is it in tune with nature?

6. Why does Frank wear a mask during the celebration, and how does it make him feel?

7. What are the major themes of Red Mars by Robinson?

8. How is Maya described in Part 2?

9. When Maya talks to Michel about her love life problems, how does he respond?

10. Why is Nadia uncomfortable talking to Maya and what makes her long to escape the group?

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