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How can you tell if a story is science fiction?

• It combines science and imagination.

• It is set in the present day.

• One character is a scientist

• The story is about technology.

How does Harry feel when he and his family first land on Mars?

• eager

• fearful

• angry

• hopeful

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Which event confirms that the family is stranded on Mars?

• The war on Earth finally ends.

• The children explore the ruins.

• Atom bombs destroy the space rockets.

• Martians appear in their town.

Roses turning green, eyes turning yellow, and cows growing an extra horn all contribute to creating a mood that is__

• silly

• eeri

• thoghtful

• somber

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Why does Harry stop building his rocket?

• He no longer cares to return to Earth.

• Earth is destroyed by an atom bomb

• Everything he builds turns to sand

• He can’t find the materials to build it.

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Which quotation from the story helps to create an eerie mood?

• “They built a small white cottage and ate good breakfasts there.”

• “The morning paper was toast-warm from the 6 a.m. Earth rocket.”

• “The roses. The roses. They’re turning green!”

• “Harry Bittering moved into the metal shop and began to build the rocket.”

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Which of the following events from the selection could occur only in a work of science fiction?

• People’s eyes change to yellow.

• Rockets go to Mars.

• There is an atomic explosion

• A family moves to an unusual place.

When Harry examines the peach blossoms that fall in his garden, he realizes that______________

• nothing he grows on Mars can survive the Martian climate

• Mars is making small but noticeable changes in everything

• colors are not the same on Mars as they were on Earth

• Earth is doomed to die from an atom bomb attack

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By agreeing to allow his son to take a Martian name, Harry is really accepting his__________

• family’s becoming Martian and adjusting to this new society

• son’s growing up to adulthood and leaving the family

• wife’s taking over as head of the Bittering family

• children’s need to make friends in their new environment

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As the captain prepares to rename the Martian landscape, the reader knows that_______

• he will not live long enough to use those names

• the names he chooses will be old Indian names

• the changing landscape will confuse the mapmakers

• the old Martian names will ultimately take over

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