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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michael do when he wants to think things over?
(a) runs a few miles
(b) watches television
(c) reads a book
(d) goes into a dormant state

2. Who does Mrs. Douglas contact after her talk with her husband?
(a) the President
(b) Madame Alexandra Vesant
(c) her secretary
(d) Jubal

3. How does Jill get Michael out of the hospital?
(a) disguised as a nurse
(b) on a stretcher
(c) in a body bag
(d) in an ambulance

4. What does Jubal tell Michael about religious ceremonies?
(a) they are symbolic and not literal
(b) they are false
(c) they are only for church members
(d) they are dull

5. When does Jubal gather the people in the house to make plans?
(a) around midnight
(b) after dinner
(c) the next morning
(d) before lunch

6. How does Jill cook her and Ben's meal?
(a) over a cook stove
(b) over a wood fire
(c) short wave oven
(d) on a grill

7. What is grokking?
(a) sleeping and dreaming
(b) eating food
(c) an intense understanding of a subject
(d) dying

8. What does Jill tell Jubal about Ben?
(a) that he will be there shortly
(b) that they are to be married
(c) that he has tapes of Douglas
(d) that he is missing

9. What does Michael see on television that has him curious?
(a) human sex
(b) dancing
(c) a Fosterite broadcast
(d) a girlie show

10. What does Michael call his waterbed?
(a) his mother
(b) his home
(c) his nest
(d) his father

11. What might, by Earth standards, Michael own outright?
(a) Mars
(b) nothing
(c) half the Earth
(d) his parents' ship

12. What happens to the adult crews on Mars before this book begins?
(a) they stayed on Mars
(b) they went on to Jupiter
(c) they returned to earth
(d) they died

13. How does Jill get Michael out of Ben's apartment?
(a) in a large piece of luggage
(b) through the laundry chute
(c) disguised as her husband
(d) dressed as a doorman

14. What does Ben decide to do after he watches the interview on television?
(a) expose the fraud
(b) interview Michael himself
(c) kill Douglas
(d) take Michael out of the hospital

15. What happens when Michael comes out of the dormant state?
(a) he moves around a little
(b) he returns to Mars
(c) he calls for a lawyer
(d) he leaves the hospital

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jill find Michael?

2. What can Michael do to his metabolism?

3. Why is Jubal frightened for Duke?

4. How long did the Martians raise the human baby?

5. What does Jubal Hershaw write?

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