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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) No more poverty.
(d) All of the above.

2. What truth is revealed about the alien spaceships?
(a) There was only one spaceship.
(b) The spaceships used warp drive to reach Earth.
(c) The spaceships were equipped with weapons that could destroy Earth.
(d) The spaceships were actually made on Earth eons earlier.

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

4. What does Pierre Duval conclude about the screen in the aliens' ship?
(a) It is a device that allows the aliens to see the past.
(b) It is a video screen.
(c) It is a window to the invaders' home world.
(d) It is a sheet of two-way glass.

5. What do the journalists and spectators present on the day the aliens reveal themselves want to experience?
(a) A photo op with the aliens.
(b) A direct word from Karellen.
(c) A tour of the spaceship.
(d) A first glimpse of the aliens.

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

7. What will happen on Earth while Jan Rodricks travels to the alien planet?
(a) Eighty minutes will have passed.
(b) Eighty years will have passed.
(c) Time will move backward.
(d) Time will stand still.

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

9. What did Jan Rodricks' father do?
(a) He was a clown.
(b) He was a wrestler.
(c) He was a magician.
(d) He was a lounge singer.

10. Why are newspapers of little value?
(a) There are few newsworthy events to report.
(b) All world news comes from one biased source.
(c) The aliens control all news about humans.
(d) New technology has elimated paper and print.

11. What does the reporter ask Rikki Stormgren 50 years after his final encounter with Karellen?
(a) The reporter asks if Karellen has revealed his future plans.
(b) The reporter asks if the invaders are immortal.
(c) The reporter asks if the invaders have accomplished all they set out to do.
(d) The reporter asks about the equipment Stormgren used to see Karellen.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chapter 10 describe?

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

4. How does the leader of the invaders make first contact with the people of Earth?

5. What happens to those invited on board the alien ship?

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