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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karelllen do for Rikki Stormgren during their last meeting?
(a) Karellen kidnaps Stormgren.
(b) Karellen lays out his future plans.
(c) Karellen reveals himself to Stormgren.
(d) Karellen introduces Stormgren to several other invaders.

2. Why do the extremists kidnap Rikki Stormgren?
(a) The extremists want to know how Rikki Stormgren communicates with the Overlords.
(b) The extremists want to hide the aliens' only human contact from them.
(c) The extremists want to hold Rikki Stormgren for ransom.
(d) The extremists want to brainwash Rikki Stormgren so that he will adopt their views.

3. After the aliens have established their rule on Earth, what evidence is seen of their influence?
(a) All of the above.
(b) No more poverty.
(c) No more war.
(d) No more sickness.

4. What does Karellen believe can achieve political harmony?
(a) The elimination of religion.
(b) The tactful use of power.
(c) The forceful use of power.
(d) The elimination of illiteracy.

5. What does Jan Rodricks see on the way to the ocean lab?
(a) An alien submarine.
(b) Unusual marine life.
(c) Ruins of an alien spaceship.
(d) A mutated whale.

6. Where did the American scientist and Russian scientist in Chapter 1 serve together at the end of WWII?
(a) Poland.
(b) Prussia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Russia.

7. What possibility do Jan Rodricks and Rupert Boyce discuss in Chapter 11?
(a) The opportunity of forcing the invaders to leave.
(b) The interbreeding of the aliens with humans.
(c) The rumor that the invaders are dying of an Earth disease.
(d) The chance that a human might go to the aliens' home planet.

8. How is the leader of the extremist group described?
(a) An elderly man who walks with a cane and has a Russian accent.
(b) An elderly man with gray eyes and a Welsh accent.
(c) A balding man with brown eyes and a Chinese accent.
(d) A younger man with blue eyes and a Polish accent.

9. Why do some humans still work?
(a) To serve others.
(b) To work on communal farms.
(c) To serve the aliens.
(d) To buy luxuries.

10. What does Professor Sullivan agree to help Jan Rodricks do?
(a) Learn the native tongue of the invaders.
(b) Help him with his experiment.
(c) Write his memoirs.
(d) Hide him from the invaders.

11. What causes the disillusion of many religious beliefs?
(a) A device donated by Karellen that can show footage of the past 5,000 years.
(b) The total education of mankind and the end of illiteracy.
(c) The discovery of golden tablets.
(d) The discovery of the Ark of the Covenant.

12. In what year does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1975.
(d) 2001.

13. What has revolutionized the Earth's economy?
(a) The aliens have introduced a new breed of primate that does all the work.
(b) There is no longer the need for currency.
(c) Machines now do all the work.
(d) There is a one-world currency.

14. What group is reserved for the most important people on Earth?
(a) Category Green.
(b) Category Purple.
(c) Category Red.
(d) Category Orange.

15. What does George Greggson desire to do with Jean Morrel?
(a) Use her for psychic experiments.
(b) Use her to spy on the invaders.
(c) Make her his wife.
(d) Take her into hiding from the invaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Rikki Stormgren being held captive?

2. Who is Alexander Wainwright?

3. Where do Rikki Stormgren and Pierre Duval meet to discuss Stormgren's findings on board the alien ship?

4. In Chapter 11, what does Jan Rodricks want Professor Sullivan to help him do?

5. What device does Rikki Stormgren take with him on board the invaders' ship?

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