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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karellen decide to do as the end of civilization approaches?
(a) Transport people from the Earth to a safe place.
(b) Destroy the world.
(c) Enslave the world.
(d) Address the world.

2. What does Karellen predict about Earth during his press conference in Chapter 14?
(a) Humans will leave Earth permanantly.
(b) The perfect world he helped create will soon be obsolete.
(c) Humans will colonize other planets.
(d) Humans will ultimately destroy themselves.

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

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

5. 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 gives him superhuman strength.
(d) It puts him into a state similar to hibernation.

6. Why did the invaders build Utopia?
(a) To give people an appreciation for freedom.
(b) To squelch human curiousity.
(c) As an experiment to see how humans would exist in a perfect world.
(d) To divert people from their doomed future.

7. Why is Karellen impressed with the whale display in Chapter 13?
(a) Because a whale is evidence of evolution.
(b) Because it is more easily transported than a real whale.
(c) Because it is eerily lifelike.
(d) There are no animals the size of a whale on Karellen's home planet.

8. What does Karellen plan to do with the children?
(a) Leave them with their parents for nurture and care.
(b) Evacuate them.
(c) Quarantine them.
(d) Put them in suspended animation.

9. 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 most likely die in space.
(c) That he will not return to Earth.
(d) That he will not age as much as those on Earth.

10. What do George Greggson and Jean Morrel decide to do after the incidents on New Athens ?
(a) Board a submarine to take them off the island.
(b) Try to stop the destruction of the island.
(c) Ask to accompany their children on the alien spacecraft.
(d) Stay on the island and die.

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

12. What does Vindarten do with Jan Rodricks?
(a) Plants his own thoughts in Jan Rodricks' mind.
(b) Shows Jan Rodricks the future.
(c) Explains the invaders' true purpose for visiting Earth.
(d) Tours the planet with him.

13. What does watching what the invaders do with the children remind George Greggson of?
(a) The fall of Saigon.
(b) An old newsreel from one of the world wars.
(c) The Trail of Tears.
(d) The Exodus.

14. How does Karellen reveal that Jan Rodricks was a stowaway on the alien ship?
(a) On a worldwide broadcast.
(b) At a press conference.
(c) Through thought transference.
(d) In a conversation with Professor Sullivan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the inactive volcano on the island?

2. Why do the invaders plan to return Jan Rodricks to Earth?

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

4. Who is Charles Yan Sen?

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

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