Answer Key for
SoccerBoy's Course of Study for
The Martian Chronicles
Study
Guide Answer Key for Year 1999:
1.
Mrs. K is a Martian, and she expects someone named Nathaniel York to
land
on
Mars.
2.
The dreams that Mrs. K has is Nathaniel York landing on Mars,
introducing
his
crew, and telling Mrs. K
that he is from Earth
3.
The Martians think that it is impossible for life to exist on Earth
because
there is too much oxygen there.
4.
Mr. K asks Mrs. K to go to the mountains so that she gets her mind off
Nathaniel
York, and so she will not be able to meet him if he comes. She
refuses
because she wants to see Nathaniel York.
5.
Mr. K says that he has invited the doctor so that Mrs. K cannot leave
the
house.
6.
He wears the mask to hide his expressions.
7.
The metal gleam that Mrs. K saw was the rocket ship coming to Mars. The
two
shots that she heard was Mr. K shooting Nathaniel York and his other crew
member.
8.
The singer and the children are surprised when they start singing the
songs
because they have never heard the songs before, and they don't even
understand
what they are singing.
9.
They expect a warm welcome and everybody to be happy.
10.
He gets very angry at Mr. Ttt for sending them.
11.
They receive the warm welcome because it turns out to be an insane
asylum
and
everybody is happy because they also think that they are from Earth.
12.
He thought that the crew was just a hallucination.
13.
The psychologist congratulates the captain for making a perfect
hallucination.
14.
He shoots the captain and the crew because he thinks that the captain
will
be happier dead, and he shoots the crew because they still continue to
live when the captain is dead.
15.
Mr. Xxx commits suicide because he thinks that he has been contaminated
with
the hallucination since the rocket ship and the bodies of the crew still
exist
after the captain is dead.
Study
Guide Answers for 2000:
1.
Everybody knew that there was an atomic war about to happen.
2.
Pritchard was taken to jail instead of Mars.
3.
Everything looked the way it was in their childhood on Earth.
4.
He says it looks too much like Green Bluff, Illinois.
5.
She says they are on Earth in 1926.
6.
Lustig sees his grandparents, and he is overjoyed because they have
been
dead
for quite a while.
7.
The captain would probably have done just what the crew did and left
the rocket.
8.
False
9.
His theory is that the Martians used telepathy, hypnosis, memory, and
imagination to quickly recreate a place and person that the crew really wanted
to see so that the Martians could kill them while they are off their guard.
10.
During the night the crew was killed by the Martians who pretended to
be the loved ones.