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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true about Earth in the 21st century?
(a) It has become totally socialist.
(b) It has become totally communist.
(c) It has reached Utopia.
(d) It has begun the colonization of other planets.

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

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

4. What is Karellen known as?
(a) Supervisor for Peace.
(b) Supervisor of Humanity.
(c) Supervisor of Planetary Colonization.
(d) Supervisor for Earth.

5. In what city does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) New York City.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Berlin.

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

7. How many hours a week do people typically work?
(a) 10.
(b) All humans work from home and set their own hours.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

8. What is the first thing the spectators experience after a spaceship lands?
(a) A blinding flash of light.
(b) Earth tremors.
(c) Karellen's voice.
(d) An earsplitting roar.

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

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

11. What are the invaders known as?
(a) Masterminds.
(b) Peacemakers.
(c) Overminds.
(d) Overlords.

12. What common ailment or condition does Rikki Stormgren suffer from?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Depression.
(c) Cataracts.
(d) Ulcers.

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

14. What does Karellen give Rikki Stormgren after Stormgren's meeting with Pierre Duval?
(a) A written history of the aliens' work on Earth.
(b) A draft of the new World State's constitution.
(c) A copy of the original Declaration of Independence.
(d) A timeline displaying the invaders' plans for the next 100 years.

15. What does Rikki Stormgren believe about the two races, humans and Overlords?
(a) He believes the two races will blend to become one.
(b) He believes the two races will coexist on earth.
(c) He believes the two races will ultimately destroy each other.
(d) He believes the two races have met each other in the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the second half of Chapter 1 take place?

2. Why do the extremists kidnap Rikki Stormgren?

3. Who is the scientist responsible for the Russian space launch?

4. How does Earth's atmosphere affect the aliens?

5. What does Karellen believe can achieve political harmony?

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