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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where can the alien spacecraft be found in the second part of Chapter 2?
(a) Hovering over Earth's major cities.
(b) Resting on open land around Earth's major cities.
(c) In continual orbit around the Earth.
(d) Concentrated over New York City.

2. What is the role of Rikki Stormgren?
(a) President of the United States.
(b) Head of the Centers for Disease Control.
(c) Secretary-General of the United Nations.
(d) Director of the League of Nations.

3. What is the name of the colonel from Technical Intelligence?
(a) Hathi.
(b) North.
(c) Sandmeyer.
(d) Lindsley.

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

5. How does Karellen free Rikki Stormgren?
(a) Rikki Stormgren is beamed aboard the invaders' ship.
(b) The exterior walls of Rikki Stormgren's cell are blasted away.
(c) By communicating through floating spheres.
(d) Rikki Stormgren is put in a temporary coma.

6. 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.

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

8. Who is the Assistant Commissioner for Nuclear Science of Russia?
(a) Morskoy.
(b) Feodorovitch.
(c) Shoskatovitch.
(d) Grigonevitch.

9. Although the media are very critical of Karellen's rule, the majority of humans are in favor of what?
(a) Karellen's goal of transporting all humans to another planet.
(b) Karellen's goal of ending global warming.
(c) Karellen's goal of world peace.
(d) Karellen's goal of ending racism.

10. Whom does Karellen meet with in his office in Chapter 9?
(a) Rupert Boyce.
(b) Rikki Stormgren.
(c) Jan Rodricks.
(d) Rashaverak.

11. What is the name of the Pacific island that is the shuttle launch site?
(a) Taratura.
(b) Bora Bora.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Papeete Bay.

12. What is the result of people working less?
(a) People have more time to devote to family.
(b) People have more time for scientific research.
(c) People have become atrophied.
(d) People have more time for leisure.

13. Why is Jan Rodricks generally unsatisfied?
(a) He doesn't like the scientific boundaries placed on humans by the invaders.
(b) He has romantic ideas about love.
(c) All of the above.
(d) He had his heart broken by Rosita Tsien.

14. Who is the American scientist introduced in Chapter 1?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Von Braun.
(d) Reinhold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Jan Rodricks feel that it will take him to reach the aliens' home planet?

2. Why are some people still unsatisfied with Utopia?

3. What does the reporter ask Rikki Stormgren 50 years after his final encounter with Karellen?

4. Why is the leader of the extremist group resentful?

5. What do the journalists and spectators present on the day the aliens reveal themselves want to experience?

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