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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jan Rodricks not allowed to photograph?
(a) Alien children.
(b) A mountain surrounded by a strange ring of light.
(c) The alien-spacecraft launch site.
(d) The inside of an invader's home.

2. What does Rashaverak suggest that George Greggson and Jean Morrel do as their children begin to change in mental and physical abilities?
(a) Ask the children to teach their parents the same abilities.
(b) Hide their children from the crisis that is to come.
(c) Move their family to an island of the invaders' choosing.
(d) Spend as much time with their children as possible.

3. Why does Professor Sullivan build a decoy whale?
(a) A real whale would be too heavy for the alien ship.
(b) It's easier to fabricate a decoy than to "stuff" a real whale.
(c) A real whale would decompose.
(d) The decoy will be easier for Jan to stow away in.

4. What does Rashaverak tell George Greggson and Jean Morrel about their children?
(a) The aliens chose the children for immortality.
(b) The children would be transported to the invader's home planet.
(c) They were randomly chosen for an experiment by a higher power.
(d) The children would be the last citizens of Earth.

5. What happens to the Earth?
(a) It burns.
(b) It is reborn.
(c) It is covered totally by water.
(d) It disintegrates.

6. Why is Karellen sad for his race?
(a) It is trapped by the Overmind.
(b) It is becoming extinct.
(c) It will never reach the potential of the new race on Earth.
(d) It is forced to perform the same tasks on some other planet as it did Earth.

7. What are the children involved in that lasts almost a year?
(a) Some sort of ritual dance.
(b) Sleep.
(c) The rebuilding of society in the invaders' image.
(d) Discovering the invaders' plans for them.

8. What is the name of the invaders' home planet?
(a) Marina.
(b) Serena.
(c) Carina.
(d) Bovina.

9. What is the name of George Greggson's oldest son's dog?
(a) Tina.
(b) Flip.
(c) Faith.
(d) Fey.

10. Why do the invaders need to watch George Greggson's and Jean Morrel's children?
(a) Because they are a danger to each other.
(b) Because they are becoming dangerous to their parents.
(c) Because they are taking on inhuman characteristics.
(d) Because they are becoming dangerous to the invaders.

11. Children all over the world under the age of _____ are experiencing a transformation.
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

12. Why does Karellen grieve for humans?
(a) Because they never reached their full potential.
(b) Because they were destroyed.
(c) Because he had become so attached to them
(d) Because he had the opportunity to save them but didn't.

13. What comes as a warning prior to the tsunami?
(a) Police going door-to-door.
(b) A telepathic warning from the invaders.
(c) A television broadcast.
(d) A siren.

14. Who is Thanthalteresco?
(a) The enforcer.
(b) The inspector.
(c) The professor.
(d) The peacekeeper.

15. What is the effect of the drug Jan Rodricks injects himself with?
(a) It gives him a heightened sense of awareness.
(b) It causes hallucinations.
(c) It puts him into a state similar to hibernation.
(d) It gives him superhuman strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the founder of the community on the island compared to?

2. How does Karellen explain the invaders' motives for occupying Earth?

3. Why is Karellen impressed with the whale display in Chapter 13?

4. What do George Greggson and Jean Morrel see Jeffrey Greggson doing as the invaders take action with the children in Chapter 21?

5. Whom does George Greggson believe saves his eldest son from the tsunami?

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