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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Jubal Hershaw live?
(a) in Washington D.C.
(b) in Europe
(c) in New York
(d) in the Pocono Mountains

3. How does Gillian get in to see Michael?
(a) with a badge
(b) in the laundry tub
(c) as a heart specialist
(d) an adjoining room

4. What is a Martian Old One?
(a) a Martian who has children
(b) a dead Martian
(c) a Martian at least 500-years-old
(d) a Martian who has been off planet

5. How do Martians spend most of their lives?
(a) growing food
(b) producing water
(c) making war
(d) learning and pondering

6. What can Michael do to his metabolism?
(a) nothing
(b) stop it
(c) slow it down
(d) speed it up

7. What does Jubal discover about Michael and religion?
(a) he wants to be a Jew
(b) he has no idea what it is
(c) his mother raised him as a Catholic
(d) the Martians have a very complicated religion

8. How long did the Martians raise the human baby?
(a) 25 years
(b) 30 years
(c) 5 years
(d) 15 years

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

10. Who breaks into Ben's apartment when Jill and Michael are there?
(a) no one
(b) two men
(c) Jubal
(d) General Douglas

11. Why does Ben hire a fair witness?
(a) to propose to Jill
(b) to serve a summons to Douglas
(c) to record a conversation at Bethesda Medical Center
(d) to witness Michael's conversation with Jill

12. Why does Ben demand to see Michael?
(a) because Michael wants to see him
(b) the male interviewer might be an imposter
(c) because Michael is rich
(d) because Ben is a journalist

13. What does Douglas find out at the Council Chamber?
(a) his office has been tapped
(b) only his office knows about Michael
(c) he's been fired
(d) the President wants to speak to him

14. How does Jubal Hershaw write?
(a) with a computer
(b) with a pen and paper
(c) dictating to his secretary
(d) talking into a recorder

15. What do Martians work on most?
(a) finding other planets
(b) raising children
(c) art
(d) growing food

Short Answer Questions

1. How many levels of his being does Michael control?

2. What happens to the body of a dead Martian?

3. What does Jill think about the interview on television with Michael?

4. What does Ben propose to Jill?

5. What happens when Michael comes out of the dormant state?

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