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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. How many rooms does the space ship carrying the colonizers have?
(a) 100.
(b) 500.
(c) 300.
(d) 200.

2. What is the index of autonomic balance called?
(a) John.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Frank.
(d) Michel.

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

4. Who is the psychiatrist sent to McMurdo Station in Antarctica with a hundred and fifty finalist scientists?
(a) Chalmers.
(b) Robinson.
(c) Manon.
(d) Duval.

5. Frank seeks out ______ to talk with but gets interrupted by sounds of violence.
(a) Sax.
(b) John.
(c) Maya.
(d) Selim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who on Ares opposes following rules from Earth and advocates making their own rules?

2. What is the group that wishes to forgo terraforming?

3. Who begins secretly sending taped messages to Washington, asking to stop the terraforming?

4. Who steals several pesticide patches from a farm?

5. Who is working on an impact hammer when it malfunctions?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Maya get involved in a sexual relationship with Frank on her off time from drills?

4. Where is John's body found, and why can't Frank revive him?

5. Why does Maya get involved sexually with John?

6. How are the first hundred colonists selected to go to Mars?

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

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

9. Why are GEMS made by the scientists?

10. What do the Reds led by Ann believe?

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