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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do George Greggson and Jean Morrel spend as much time as possible doing?
(a) Being with their son.
(b) Being with their pets.
(c) Planning the future.
(d) Conversing with the invaders.

2. What is Jennifer Greggson able to do as she begins to show evidences of change in Chapter 18?
(a) Read her parents' minds.
(b) Levitate.
(c) Speak in the same language as the invaders.
(d) Shake a rattle without touching it.

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

4. 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 the invaders.
(c) Because they are taking on inhuman characteristics.
(d) Because they are becoming dangerous to their parents.

5. What is the name of the inactive volcano on the island?
(a) Vesuvius.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Corinth.
(d) Mt. Doom.

6. What is the name of George Greggson's oldest son?
(a) Joey.
(b) Jeremy.
(c) Jeffrey.
(d) George.

7. How does Karellen explain the invaders' motives for occupying Earth?
(a) To study humans and teach them the ways of the invaders.
(b) To repopulate Earth with the invaders after humans are gone.
(c) To remove humans from Earth, because Earth will ultimately be destroyed.
(d) To protect Earth, because it will serve a higher purpose.

8. Whom does George Greggson believe saves his eldest son from the tsunami?
(a) The invaders.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) The Coast Guard.
(d) His mother.

9. Why do the invaders plan to return Jan Rodricks to Earth?
(a) Because he is too hostile to the invaders.
(b) Because they want him to act as ambassador.
(c) Because conditions on the alien planet would be too uncomfortable for him.
(d) Because he is discovered to have a disease the invaders cannot treat.

10. What does Jan Rodricks observe that he also saw on the aliens' home planet?
(a) A glowing mountain.
(b) A museum.
(c) Aliens flying.
(d) A giant web of light and color covering the atmosphere.

11. Who is Charles Yan Sen?
(a) A theologian.
(b) A poet.
(c) A psychiatrist.
(d) A philosopher.

12. Who offers the primary point of view in Chapter 14?
(a) Professor Sullivan.
(b) Jan Rodricks.
(c) Karellen.
(d) Rupert Boyce.

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

14. What do the aliens do with Jan Rodricks?
(a) Leave him in charge of their base.
(b) Return for him after he has recorded the activities of the new race.
(c) Take him with them back to their home planet.
(d) Make him part of the new race.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Professor Sullivan sad in Chapter 13?

2. What drug does Jan Rodricks inject himself with after being smuggled on board the alien ship?

3. What bothers George Greggson about Jan Rodricks?

4. The invaders were sent to Earth by:

5. How does Karellen explain mankind's understanding of the invaders' devil-like appearance to Jan Rodricks?

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