2. What alarms Jan Rodricks when he returns to Earth?
(a) The Earth is devoid of all vegetation.
(b) The Earth is totally covered with water.
(c) The Earth is dark with no man-made lights.
(d) Human bodies.

3. 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.

4. What does the device Karellen employs in the pressroom do?
(a) It gives those attending the press conference the ability to see the future.
(b) It discerns the thoughts of all those attending the press conference.
(c) It causes those attending the press conference to accept everything they hear from Karellen.
(d) It turns the pressroom into a makeshift planetarium

5. What bothers George Greggson about Jan Rodricks?
(a) That he will have information about the invaders that no one else has.
(b) That he will not age as much as those on Earth.
(c) That he will not return to Earth.
(d) That he will most likely die in space.

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

7. What do the aliens do while the children develop their powers?
(a) Select the less-intelligent children for extermination.
(b) Tutor the children.
(c) Mingle with the children.
(d) Observe from space.

8. What is the Overmind?
(a) The collective group mind of the invaders.
(b) Karellen's true identity.
(c) The higher power.
(d) The part of a human's brain that controls the will.

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

10. What island do George Greggson and Jean Morrel visit?
(a) New Agribah.
(b) New Albany.
(c) New Amsterdam.
(d) New Athens.

11. What do the remaining people on New Athens do after the aliens take action with their children?
(a) Plot how to rescue their children.
(b) Decide how to live the rest of their lives.
(c) Band together to defeat the aliens.
(d) Dissolve into mass warfare.

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

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

14. What does Karellen state was the reason for his occupation of Earth?
(a) To keep humans from destroying themselves.
(b) To keep humans fron destroying the Earth.
(c) To unite all the nations of the Earth under a one-world government.
(d) To stop the advancements in science that would have potentially destroyed Earth.

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