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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Stay on the island and die.
(c) Try to stop the destruction of the island.
(d) Ask to accompany their children on the alien spacecraft.

4. What does Jan Rodricks come to realize after his return to Earth from the aliens' planet?
(a) He is the last man on Earth.
(b) He had the opportunity to stop the aliens and failed to do so.
(c) He is responsible for what the aliens have done.
(d) He is an alien himself in human form.

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. Which invader does George Greggson meet with?
(a) Takhomasak.
(b) Rashaverak.
(c) Thanthalteresco.
(d) Karellen.

10. What is the name of George Greggson's daughter?
(a) Pepper Anne.
(b) Jennifer Anne.
(c) Carol Anne.
(d) Elizabeth Anne.

11. 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) Move their family to an island of the invaders' choosing.
(c) Ask the children to teach their parents the same abilities.
(d) Hide their children from the crisis that is to come.

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

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

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

15. How does Karellen explain mankind's understanding of the invaders' devil-like appearance to Jan Rodricks?
(a) The invaders can morph into whatever appearance they please.
(b) The invaders made cave paintings of themselves in areas where humans had not yet emerged.
(c) The invaders appeared to early man.
(d) Some people throughout history have had psychic visions of the invaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles Yan Sen compares the aliens' cultivation of Earth to:

2. Why is Karellen sad for his race?

3. What do the aliens do with the children in Chapter 21?

4. What is unique about the island George Greggson and Jean Morrel visit?

5. What is unique about Karellen's planet?

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