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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 is Jennifer Greggson able to do as she begins to show evidences of change in Chapter 18?
(a) Shake a rattle without touching it.
(b) Read her parents' minds.
(c) Levitate.
(d) Speak in the same language as the invaders.

2. 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) There are no animals the size of a whale on Karellen's home planet.
(d) Because it is eerily lifelike.

3. Who is Charles Yan Sen?
(a) A philosopher.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A theologian.
(d) A poet.

4. What bothers George Greggson about Jan Rodricks?
(a) That he will not return to Earth.
(b) That he will most likely die in space.
(c) That he will have information about the invaders that no one else has.
(d) That he will not age as much as those on Earth.

5. Charles Yan Sen compares the aliens' cultivation of Earth to:
(a) Raising puppies.
(b) Human child-rearing practices.
(c) Zookeeping.
(d) An anthropological experiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jan Rodricks not allowed to photograph?

2. What does Karellen predict about Earth during his press conference in Chapter 14?

3. Where does Karellen send one of his fellow invaders?

4. The invaders were sent to Earth by:

5. What do the aliens do with Jan Rodricks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is significant about the results of the tsunami on George Greggson's family?

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

4. In his radio address in Chapter 20, what does Karellen explain is his reason for occupying the planet?

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

6. Why do the Overlords watch George Greggson's children?

7. How does Jan Rodricks respond when approaching Earth on his return, and why?

8. 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?

9. What is ironic about Jan Rodricks' return to Earth?

10. Why was New Athens founded, by whom, and what is its greatest artistic achievement?

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