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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jan Rodricks' mother do?
(a) She is a college professor.
(b) She is an astronomer.
(c) She is a high school teacher.
(d) She is a guidance counselor.

2. Why is the leader of the extremist group resentful?
(a) The aliens promote a one-world government.
(b) The aliens are taking away human liberties.
(c) The aliens promote racial intermarriage.
(d) The aliens are making pacifists of mankind.

3. Where do the aliens come from?
(a) THX 1138.
(b) NCC 1701.
(c) NGS 549672.
(d) BH 90210.

4. Who is the scientist responsible for the Russian space launch?
(a) Nikita Marx.
(b) Vladimir Lenin.
(c) Konrad Schneider.
(d) Oskar Schindler.

5. What biblical story does Jan Rodricks refer to in his farewell letter?
(a) Noah's Ark.
(b) The Good Samaritan.
(c) Jonah and the Whale.
(d) David and Goliath.

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

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

8. Who is Pierre Duval?
(a) Head of National Security.
(b) Head of the Internal Revenue Service.
(c) Head of the Science Bureau.
(d) Head of the League of Nations.

9. Where do Rikki Stormgren and Pierre Duval meet to discuss Stormgren's findings on board the alien ship?
(a) Stormgren's Office.
(b) Science Bureau.
(c) The Freedom League.
(d) League of Nations.

10. In what year does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1980.

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

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

13. Why do the aliens find Jean Morrel valuable?
(a) Because she channeled a spirit.
(b) Because she has extraordinarily high IQ.
(c) Because she has an advanced immune system.
(d) Because she has memory of past lives.

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

15. What does the American scientist see from the Pacific island?
(a) Shadows of the approaching alien ships.
(b) Russian troops storming the beaches.
(c) Russian submarines approaching the island.
(d) The launch of the Russian spacecraft.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the alien ship located in Chapter 5?

3. Where does Rupert Boyce live?

4. What does an unnamed major country attempt to do to the invaders?

5. What does Karelllen do for Rikki Stormgren during their last meeting?

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