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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Captain in "The Exiles" order at the last minute from the Historical Museum?
(a) Old manuscripts.
(b) Books.
(c) Maps.
(d) Weapons.

2. When was Leonard Mark's mother in a blowup of London?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1955.

3. Where does the narrator run to?
(a) A man driving by in a car.
(b) A police station.
(c) A small town.
(d) A grocery store.

4. What city does Saul Williams wish to remember?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Miami.

5. During what season of the year does a rocket land on a planet where a city waits?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

6. In "The Exiles", what is the date?
(a) 2120.
(b) 2100.
(c) 2099.
(d) 2089.

7. How old is Leonard Mark?
(a) 32.
(b) 21.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

8. What is the name of the film director of the American motion picture company that William and Susan Travis observe?
(a) Ted Callaway.
(b) Joe Melton.
(c) Bob Minton.
(d) Brian Rollins.

9. Where does Clemens's girl live?
(a) Champaign.
(b) Janesville.
(c) Decatur.
(d) Evanston.

10. How many children does Bodoni have?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

11. What were the people called who lived on the planet where the city waits?
(a) Taollan.
(b) Prinian.
(c) Brinian.
(d) Carollan.

12. Whom does Poe want Bierce to warn about the rocket coming to Mars?
(a) Lewis Carrol.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Edgar Rice Burroughs.
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne.

13. How old is Bramante?
(a) 90.
(b) 60.
(c) 80.
(d) 70.

14. What did Saul Williams and another sick man discuss six months ago?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Epicurus.

15. How much money does Bodoni have saved?
(a) $5,000.
(b) $3,000.
(c) $2,000.
(d) $4,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Concrete Mixer", what nationality is the young man in stories who usually thwarts a Martian invasion?

2. What disease does Saul Williams have that put him in quarantine on Mars?

3. What is William Travis's job back home in the future?

4. Where do Mary and Henry Morris hide from the children at five o'clock?

5. In "The Concrete Mixer", what does the band play as the Martians prepare to land on Earth?

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