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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Vindarten?
(a) The only alien who speaks English.
(b) The only alien who can read Jan Rodricks' mind.
(c) The only alien who understands Jan Rodricks.
(d) The only alien who doesn't have wings.

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 is responsible for what the aliens have done.
(c) He is an alien himself in human form.
(d) He had the opportunity to stop the aliens and failed to do so.

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

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

7. What does the new race do with the moon?
(a) Make it spin.
(b) Destroy it.
(c) Colonize it.
(d) Fling it toward the sun.

8. What is unique about the island George Greggson and Jean Morrel visit?
(a) It is a colony made up of astronomers.
(b) It is a colony made up of professors.
(c) It is a colony made up of zoologists.
(d) It is a colony made up of artists.

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

10. What does Thanthalteresco call George Greggson's oldest son?
(a) Subject One.
(b) Subject Infinity.
(c) Subject Zero.
(d) Subject Hero.

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

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

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

14. The invaders were sent to Earth by:
(a) The Force.
(b) The Galactic Empire.
(c) The United Federation of Planets.
(d) A higher power.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Professor Sullivan sad in Chapter 13?

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

4. What does Rashaverak suggest that George Greggson and Jean Morrel do as their children begin to change in mental and physical abilities?

5. What do the aliens do with Jan Rodricks?

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