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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Karellen grieve for humans?

3. What do George Greggson and Jean Morrel see Jeffrey Greggson doing as the invaders take action with the children in Chapter 21?

4. Who is Vindarten?

5. What does watching what the invaders do with the children remind George Greggson of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Karellen sad at the end of the novel?

2. What happens at the council meeting between the leaders of New Athens and the Overlord "Inspector," Thanthalteresco? How does Thanthalteresco respond to Dr. Sen's comments?

3. Why do George Greggson and Jean Morrel move to New Athens? Describe their adjustment to their new home.

4. What does Karellen reveal during his weekly press conference in Chapter 14, and how does he justify the Overlords' actions based on their revelation during the conference?

5. Describe Jan Rodricks' activities during his stay on Carina. How does he feel about his visit?

6. What does Jan Rodricks observe after the Overlords depart and leave him as the last person on Earth, and what does he wonder about the Overlords and his role at the end?

7. During the press conference at which Karellen says that Jan Rodricks has stowed away on the Overlords' spaceship, what part of Karellen's nature does he reveal?

8. Why are George Greggson and Jean Morrel spending more time with their children in Chapter 19?

9. How does Karellen explain to Jan Rodricks mankind's ancient fear of the satanic appearance of the Overlords?

10. According to Karellen, why did the Overlords build Utopia, and what is his desire for mankind?

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