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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What special day does Chapter 5 deal with?
(a) The day the aliens reveal themselves.
(b) The day the aliens give ultimatums to Earth.
(c) The day the aliens go back to their home planet.
(d) The day the aliens begin their methodical destruction of mankind.

2. In what year does Chapter 2 begin?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1999.

3. What has happened to the countries of Earth?
(a) Each one has been given autonomy over their people.
(b) They are all united, but have kept their original names.
(c) They have been divided into four geographic regions.
(d) Each country has an ambassador to the aliens.

4. What is the role of Rikki Stormgren?
(a) Head of the Centers for Disease Control.
(b) Director of the League of Nations.
(c) President of the United States.
(d) Secretary-General of the United Nations.

5. How is the leader of the extremist group described?
(a) An elderly man with gray eyes and a Welsh accent.
(b) A balding man with brown eyes and a Chinese accent.
(c) A younger man with blue eyes and a Polish accent.
(d) An elderly man who walks with a cane and has a Russian accent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the extremists kidnap Rikki Stormgren?

2. Who is the Assistant Commissioner for Nuclear Science of Russia?

3. Why are newspapers of little value?

4. Where is Rikki Stormgren being held captive?

5. What does Rikki Stormgren believe about the two races, humans and Overlords?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Karellen want two children to come inside the ship with him?

2. Why are professional sports almost obsolete in 2050?

3. What does the arrival of the Overlords do to religion?

4. Why are newspapers virtually obsolete in 2050?

5. What does Jan Rodricks ask Professor Sullivan to help him do, and what is Sullivan's response?

6. What do Jan Rodricks and Rupert Boyce discuss while examining a stuffed elephant at Boyce's home, and why is Rodricks hesitant about telling Boyce the location of the Overlords' planet?

7. Why are the journalists and spectators waiting in anticipation at the beginning of Chapter 5?

8. Who are the Overlords, and where are they found at the beginning of Chapter 2?

9. What are some of the adjustments the Overlords have to make to adapt to being on Earth?

10. List at least two facts about each of Jan Rodricks' parents. How have his parents influenced who he is?

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